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822.01/128a: Circular telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Diplomatic Representatives in the American Republics Except Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Brazil

Washington, June 3, 1944—9 p.m.
(1)
This Government has received reports from Scotten that indicate that the Velasco Ibarra Government is in control of the country and that there is no active resistance to it and that it intends to fulfill its international obligations and, furthermore, it has announced its friendliness to the United Nations War Effort.
(2)
As reports reaching us indicate no threat to the Hemisphere or to the United Nations war effort nor any pro-Axis inspiration in the Velasco Ibarra revolutionary movement, his Government also appears to deserve recognition from the security angle.
(3)
In accordance with Resolution XXII of the CPD,16 you are requested to consult with the Government to which you are accredited [Page 1045] and if its views are in agreement with our own with respect to paragraph two, this Government proposes that the present Government of Ecuador be recognized at an early date, preferably within the course of the coming week.
(4)
Please endeavor to have the reply of the country to which you are accredited here by Tuesday17 in order that a date may be fixed immediately for simultaneous recognition.
Stettinius
  1. For text of Resolution XXII of the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense, see telegram from the Chairman of the Committee, December 24, 1943, Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. v. p. 34; also printed in Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense, Second Annual Report, July 15, 1943–October 15, 1944 (Montevideo, 1944), p. 79.↩
  2. June 6.↩