722.2315/2578: Telegram
The Minister in Ecuador (Long) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:28 p.m.]
465. The following telegram has been sent to Lima:
November 24, 3 p.m. From three Ministers to three Ambassadors. The Ecuadoran communiqué with regard to the release of prisoners was published this morning. In addition the newspapers published a statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in which he expressed “his lively satisfaction with the conciliatory form in which the Peruvian [Page 244] statement was phrased, a statement which has been received with especial pleasure in Ecuador.” In the same article the Foreign Minister is stated to have expressed the hope that this step would contribute to a solution of the controversy.
Press comment on the action of Peru has been uniformly favorable, and it has been received with widespread public satisfaction.
Repeated to the Department.