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President Wilson to Prince Lidj Yassou of Ethiopia

Great and Good Friend: In conformity with Article 7, thereof, I have the honor to notify Your Royal Highness that I had the pleasure on September 19, 1914, to ratify, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the Treaty of Commerce between the United States of America and Ethiopia which Your Royal Highness signed with the Plenipotentiary of the United States at Adis Ababa on June 27, 1914.

Owing to ill health it is not possible for the Plenipotentiary of the United States to return to Abyssinia at this time for the purpose of placing this notification and my instrument of ratification in the hands of Your Royal Highness. I have therefore entrusted their delivery to Colonel Charles H. M. Doughty-Wylie, C.M.G., the Chargé d’Affaires of Great Britain at Adis Ababa, who, with the permission of his Government, has kindly consented to fulfill this [Page 242] requirement. I therefore request Your Royal Highness to receive him favorably for the execution of this mission on my behalf.

I am happy to avail myself of this opportunity to assure Your Royal Highness of my best wishes for your personal welfare and for the prosperity of Ethiopia.

May God have Your Royal Highness in His wise Keeping.

Your Good Friend,

Woodrow Wilson

By the President:
Robert Lansing,
Acting Secretary of State.