International African Friends of Abyssinia International African Friends of Abyssinia The International African Friends of Abyssinia (IAFA), also known as the International African Friends of Ethiopia, was an organisation established in London, England, in 1935 to protest against Italian aggression against Abyssinia (see Second Italo-Ethiopian War). Its membership was composed of many important Pan-African figures, several of whom later formed the International African Service Bureau. IAFA's first public meeting was held on 23 July 1935, with another public meeting taking place on Sunday, 28 July at Memorial Hall in Farringdon Street, London, and was widely reported in newspapers. Throughout the summer of 1935, the IAFA
Name of Canada organizations (such as the Organization of American States), the European Union, the United States, and other polities with which Canada has official relations as a state consistently use "Canada" as the only official name, state that Canada has no long-form name, or that the formal name is simply "Canada". While no legal document ever says that the name of the country is anything other than "Canada", "Dominion" and "Dominion of Canada" remain official titles of the country. In recent years, the terms "Dominion of Canada" and "Dominion" are occasionally used to distinguish modern (post-1867) Canada from either the earlier Province