611.2231/201: Telegram
The Minister in Ecuador ( Gonzalez ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:28 p.m.]
57. Referring to Department’s telegram No. 42, October 6, 7 p.m. I again discussed the matter exhaustively this morning with the Minister for Foreign Affairs in an effort to persuade him to recede from the position taken. He reiterated previous arguments and stated categorically that his Government is not prepared to abandon the conditional trade balance clause. While I have obtained his agreement to reconsider the whole question in the light of the points made in the Department’s telegram and of other practical considerations I am not hopeful that he will recede sufficiently to allow the negotiations to continue.