Change in the Weather

For four years, while the Italians overran his country, Ethiopia's Haile Selassie found refuge on a peaceful estate in Bath. "The asylum," he said later, "offered us ... in [our darkest] hour ... has been of inestimable value."

Last week, in one of Britain's darker hours, a British fund to relieve distress caused by last winter's floods received a letter. It expressed "solicitude for the unprecedented harshness of the weather in a countryside which we will always remember as your great and pleasant land." Enclosed was a check for -L-1,000, signed by Haile Selassie, now once more secure on his throne in Addis Ababa (where the sun shines almost every day of the year).

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