Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia has placed a large number of native Jews – Falashas – in important administrative posts as part of a large scale program to rebuild the internal administration of the country destroyed during the Italian occupation, it is learned here.
The Emperor is also utilizing the services of several Palestine Jews, who are now in the country operating and directing new industrial plants. Textile experts from the Arit textile concern in Palestine are operating the large fiber factory established in Addis Ababa. Some of the persons who are now in government posts are Prof. Kamrat, a Falasha, who is in the Department of Education; Jacob Teseaco, also a Falasha, on the staff of the Ministry of Finance; Dr. Alexander Katz, former German industrialist, in charge of the tax department of the Finance Ministry.
Prof. Norman Bentwich, former Attorney-General of Palestine, was recently in Addis Ababa as an adviser to the Emperor on international affairs, while an American Jewish attorney, Nathan Marein, who represented Haile Selassie in Jerusalem when the Italians sued unsuccessfully for possession of the Emperor’s property in Palestine, is now a judge of the Ethiopian High Court. Prof. Bentwich, incidentally, organized a branch of the Friends of the Hebrew. University during his stay in Addis Ababa.
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