722.2315/1216: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ecuadoran Minister for Foreign Affairs (Tobar Donoso)
I have received Your Excellency’s telegram referring to the suspension by the Government of Peru of the negotiations in this city for the settlement of the boundary controversy and expressing the hope that the Government of the United States will view sympathetically the position of the Government of Ecuador.
As Your Excellency is aware my Government welcomed the privilege of acting as host for the Delegations of Ecuador and Peru during their sojourn in Washington. In that capacity it has endeavored in every appropriate way to facilitate the negotiations, animated always by a lively hope that there would emerge a settlement which, reflecting the broad comprehension and conciliatory spirit of the eminent statesmen of Ecuador and Peru, would lay more solid foundations for friendship and cooperation between the two countries. Therefore, while it is a source of disappointment that negotiations have not yet produced the results so sincerely desired, my Government is confident that the Governments of the two countries will examine the new situation in a spirit of determination to assure continued progress toward a pacific and definitive settlement.
Accept [etc.]