File No. 763.72/8019

The Minister in Ecuador ( Hartman) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

In note received last night [Minister of] Foreign Affairs advises me that Ecuador has broken off diplomatic relations with Germany, [Page 384] canceled exequaturs of German consuls in Ecuador, recalled Ecuadoran Consul from Berlin, and ordered Dr. Wilhelm Mueller to leave the national territory, handing to him police passports at the same time.

Hartman