822.50/318: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Ecuador ( Scotten )

886. Please get in touch with Kinnear and inform him that the Department and the Bank and Ross Moore do not feel that any substantial change should be made in the structure of the Development Corporation at this time. We believe that the President of Ecuador is now in agreement with this point of view and wishes Kinnear to remain as General Manager and to have an Ecuadoran appointed Assistant Manager. The Department and the Bank are willing to appoint Chiriboga as Assistant Manager if this meets with the President’s approval. We feel that the above represents the best solution to the present difficulties and wish you to urge Kinnear to stay on as General Manager. If you can persuade Kinnear to remain as General Manager on this basis please take the matter up with the President and endeavor to get his approval to Chiriboga’s appointment.50

Hull
  1. The Ambassador reported in his telegram No. 1039, December 1, 1943, 2 p.m., that Kinnear had agreed to remain as general manager of the Corporation for a time, but in his telegram No. 1106, December 18, 11 a.m., he indicated that Chiriboga had declined the appointment by the President as assistant manager (822.50/321, 327).