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Ras Tafari Makonnen, Prince Regent of Ethiopia, to President Coolidge10

Great and Good Friend: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your friendly letter dated July 26th. 1927,11 for which I thank you.

I sincerely regret to learn the delay of the re-establishment of an [Page 595] official American representative in my Capital; your Excellency may be sure that my desire was to see the representative of the United States of America sometime this year, and I was anxiously awaiting his arrival, when I may welcome him in due course.

As your Excellency is already aware, that the question of an American Minister of being sent to Addis-Ababa will be to strengthen the friendship which exists between both the Government[s], I therefore expect undoubtedly that the Congress will take successful [favorable] action in this matter as little [soon] as possible and send up the representative here.

Your Good Friend

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Tafari Makonnen
]
  1. Printed from a translation that accompanied the original Amharic text.
  2. Ante, p. 593.