The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Fox.
Washington, August 10, 1910.
Your August 5. When your colleagues are authorized to do likewise, you will again seek an opportunity discreetly but forcibly to impress upon the President and Government of Ecuador the views of this Government as regards the present attitude of Ecuador toward the tripartite mediation. You will make clear that the failure of Ecuador to show a conciliatory disposition and to take the steps recommended which provide honorable means to a friendly adjustment of its difficulties with Peru can only be regarded by this Government as an evidence of (1) a disinclination to reach a peaceful and honorable solution of the boundary difficulty or (2) lack of confidence in the mediating powers. The representatives of Brazil and Argentina here have been requested to ask that similar instructions be sent by their Governments to representatives at Quito.
Repeat to the legation at Lima for its information.