Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1938, The American Republics, Volume V

722.2315/1152: Telegram

The Minister in Ecuador (Long) to the Secretary of State

Quito, June 17, 1938—11 a.m.
[Received 5:45 p.m.]

70. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an official communiqué today announces that the Ecuadoran and Peruvian Governments have agreed to withdraw their respective troops which were sent to the frontier since the incident of June 1 and to free the soldiers captured, at 9:00 o’clock this morning.

Long