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

611.2231/281a: Telegram

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

Washington, August 6, 1938.

43. Stand by for detailed instructions. Proviso to concession on balsa timber absolutely necessary. If agreement already signed, exchange of notes necessary. If agreement not signed, proviso should be inserted in schedule II.

To facilitate further instructions, telegraph that agreement has been signed if that is the case.²¹

Hull

21. The Minister in Ecuador in telegram No. 91, August 6, 2 p.m., stated that the agreement had been signed that morning (611.2231/278).