File No. 422.11G93/969a
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Ecuador ( Hartman)
The Department has cabled the Consul at Guayaquil the resolution of the War Trade Board that forthwith all outstanding licenses for the importation of cacao from Ecuador will be suspended and that until further notice he will refuse to certify invoices for shipments of cacao to the United States. Should the Government of Ecuador immediately commence to make deposits as it has agreed to do, the Department will probably be in a position again to approach the War Trade Board in regard to the importation of cacao from Ecuador.