Garvey condemned Selassie’s London exile while Padmore defended him as a unity symbol

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It was one of the issues that George Padmore and I used to fight him over, because at that time in London, Haile Selassie symbolized our unity in Europe. And yet from the time of the Emperor’s arrival in England, Garvey castigated him as a man who, instead of dying on the battlefield in the tradition of Ethiopian leaders, had slunk away to England to find refuge; how could such a coward, Garvey alleged, be the leader of such a great nation?” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2415