International African Friends of Abyssinia passed resolutions urging all Africans and people of African descent to help Abyssinia and called upon the League of Nations and the British Government to protect Abyssinia. On 26 August, the IAFA organised a rally in Trafalgar Square which drew a crowd of nearly five hundred supporters. Members of the initial executive committee of the International African Friends of Abyssinia included: Other leading members came to include George Padmore, Chris Braithwaite and T. Ras Makonnen. 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
Name of Georgia (country) also adopted in Abkhaz and Georgia is referred as Қырҭтәыла "Kyrţtwyla" (i.e. Sakartvelo). The European "Georgia" probably stems from the Persian designation of the Georgians – "gurğ" (), "ğurğ" – which reached the Western European crusaders and pilgrims in the Holy Land who rendered the name as "Georgia" (also "Jorgania", "Giorginia", etc.) and, erroneously, explained its origin by the popularity of St. George (Tetri Giorgi) among the Georgians. This explanation is offered, among others, by Jacques de Vitry and Franz Ferdinand von Troilo. Another theory, popularized by the likes of Jean Chardin, semantically linked "Georgia" to Greek ("tiller of the