Word: menelik
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preferred to style himself Guillermo Enrique Eliseo, died in Mexico City. Mr. Ellis was one of the most remarkable men who ever acted as agent for the State Department. He was known chiefly for the famous incident in which he delivered a commercial Treaty from this country to King Menelik of Abyssinia. But his unusual history began much earlier...
Then, in 1904, came the Abyssinia affair. He desired, it is declared, to become King of Abyssinia. He induced the State Department to draw up a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with King Menelik. Kent J. Loomis, brother of the then Assistant Secretary of State (under President Roosevelt) was commissioned to take the treaty to Abyssinia. Ellis accompanied him. Aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II in the English Channel Loomis disappeared. His body was later washed up on the English coast...