722.2315/1489a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ecuadoran Minister for Foreign Affairs ( Tobar Donoso )26

The Governments of Argentina, Brazil, and the United States have received with deepest satisfaction the favorable replies of the Governments of Ecuador and Peru to the offer of the three Governments of their friendly services in furthering a prompt, equitable, and final settlement of the existing boundary dispute between the Governments of Ecuador and of Peru.

It is a matter of particular gratification to the Governments which have offered these friendly offices to learn that this offer has been accepted.

It is the intention of the three Governments to offer in the immediate future to the Governments of Ecuador and of Peru suggestions as to the most practical method for the holding of conversations between representatives of the parties to the dispute, and representatives of the three Governments tendering their friendly services, with a view to the reaching of an expeditious agreement for the final and equitable settlement of the controversy.

In the meantime, the Governments of Argentina, Brazil, and the United States in the most friendly manner express their earnest hope that no step may be taken by either of the two Governments involved [Page 229] in the controversy which might cause any deterioration in the existing relations between the two neighbor countries.

I avail myself [etc.]

Cordell Hull
  1. The same on the same date to the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Solf y Muro).