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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Under Secretary of State (Welles)
The Ambassador of Ecuador called to see me this morning at my request. I told the Ambassador that I had had the opportunity in a two-hour conference with the Peruvian Ambassador and with Dr. Tudela, the Chairman of the Peruvian boundary delegation, of taking up with them the formula for a possible solution of the boundary dispute which I had talked over with Dr. Viteri, and that I was very happy to say that the tentative suggestion made had appeared to receive a favorable reception from Dr. Tudela, who had said that he would at once cable it to his Government and that he hoped to give me an early and favorable reply thereto. The Ambassador of Ecuador expressed his very deep gratification at this favorable impression which I had received and said that he would at once advise his Government accordingly. I made it clear that it would be wise for him not to seem to be over-optimistic since I was merely giving him the impressions I had obtained, and that no commitments of any kind had been made. The Ambassador said that he would bear this in mind.
[Page 223]I said that it was always a matter of particular pleasure to the officials of this Government to be of service to the other governments of this continent in facilitating the satisfactory and peaceful solutions of difficulties which existed between them, and that in this present instance, the Ambassador knew that during these past eighteen months I had given a great deal of time and thought to this problem, always within the limitations of the course of procedure that this Government had laid down for itself. I said that therefore it was particularly gratifying to have at least some reasonable measure of hope.
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