Tedla bairu biography of donald
Title: Eritrea and Ethiopia: A front row look at issues of conflict and the potential for a peaceful resolution....
The Arrival of the Four Powers Commission in Eritrea
Main leaders of the victorious Four Powers: Churchill (Great Britain), Truman (USA) and Stalin (USSR) at Postdam Conference in Germany, 1945
After World War II had ended with the victory of the Allied forces, where Italy was defeated, in 1947, the Four Powers - namely USA, USSR, Great Britain and France - dispatched a joint Commission of Enquiry to Italy’s former colonies to decide on their fate.
Most of the members of the commission were not quite familiar with Eritrea’s case. One of them however, General Frank Stafford of Great Britain, would play a significant role in deciding Eritrea’s future.
HERUI TEDLA BAIRU, a political scientist, is one of the founders, organizers, and theoreticians of the Ethiopian Students Movement (ESM) in the early s.
He had been serving as an advisor to the Ethiopian government from 1941 to 1944. Having had this role priory to the inquiry, it was a clear conflict of interest for him to be in the commission. But it was not without reason and clearly that was the plan all along.
The Al-Rabita Islamia Party, or the Muslim League, held a press bri