722.2315/2541: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Peru (Norweb)
461. From the Under Secretary. With reference to your letter of November 1139 and telegram 610, November 14, 4 p.m., and if you and your Brazilian and Argentine colleagues perceive no objections, I propose in company with the Argentine and Brazilian Ambassadors in Washington to inform the Ecuadoran Ambassador in utmost confidence of the statements made to you by President Prado concerning negotiations for a settlement. We will request him to ascertain if his Government is willing to negotiate on the basis of the 1936 status quo line in the western sector and some modification thereof in the Oriente. It is my suggestion that for reasons of practical convenience communication with the Ecuadoran Government by the mediators be made in this fashion at least for the time being. Please telegraph your reply urgently. [Welles.]
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