Office of the Historian

422.11G93/1007: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Ecuador (Belt)

Washington, February 6, 1919, noon.

Department desires to be informed what part, if any, has been paid by the Ecuadoran Government of the $859,740.00 mentioned in Department’s December 6, 7 p.m.12 and in Despatch No. 206 of December 6.13

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Is the 80,000 pounds mentioned in your February 3, 6 p.m. entirely part payment of the above mentioned sum or does it include daily payments as well.

Polk
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Foreign Relations, 1918, p. 425.↩