Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

The Secretary of State to the Ecuadorian Minister (Córdova)

Department of State,
Washington, January 13, 1915.

No. 16]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 25th ultimo, in further relation to the representations that have been made by France and Great Britain to Ecuador in regard to the alleged violation of neutrality by Ecuador in permitting German men-of-war to use the Galápagos Islands as a base of supplies and observation.

In reply I have the honor to inform you that the Department has communicated to the French and British Embassies the substance of your note, and the substance of that part of your note of December 3, 1914,¹ which treats of the violation of Ecuadorian neutrality in the Galápagos Islands.

Accept [etc.]

W. J. Bryan

1. Ante, p. 694.