Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1910

The Secretary of State to the Ecuadorian Minister.

Department of State,
Washington, June 11, 1910.

My Dear Mr. Minister: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 4th instant, congratulating the department on the result of its good offices in promoting peace and American confraternity, and inclosing a copy of a cablegram of the President of Ecuador, in which he states that he gave orders on the 2d instant for the retirement of his troops from the frontier, and that their withdrawal will be accomplished in six days.

Thanking you for your appreciative comments on the department’s action and for the agreeable intelligence conveyed in Gen. Alfaro’s telegram,

I am, my dear Mr. Carbo, etc.,

P. C. Knox.