The Ecuadorian Minister to the Secretary of State.
Washington, June 11, 1910.
Mr. Secretary: As I said to your excellency at our last conference, the American chancellery will be so good as to communicate directly with the chancellery of Ecuador through the most excellent minister of the United States at Quito until my successor arrives, on account of my being about to leave for the country with my family, the summer season having opened.
I here reiterate the high appreciation which I have also expressed to your excellency in which I hold, and history will hold, the wise and telling efforts of your excellency in the cause of the peace of the continent, whereby war between Ecuador and Peru was averted through the friendly mediation of the United States, Brazil, and the Argentine Republic.
This momentous step taken by the three American nations, on the initiative of the United States, will mark an epoch in the diplomatic annals of the New World and bring fame to the mediating Republics and to those which accepted their good offices in the interest of peace and fraternity among the States of this hemisphere.
Highly gratified at my having contributed with all my strength to the success of your excellency’s high-minded policy and confident that mediation will be crowned with the best results and bring about an honorable settlement which will put an end to the boundary dispute between Ecuador and Peru, there remains for me to express to your excellency my best thanks for the attentions you nave deigned to show me and to ask at the same time that you kindly convey to the President of the Republic, to all the officers of the administration, and particularly to the officers of the State Department, my profound acknowledgment of the favorable reception that has been vouchsafed to me in the discharge of my diplomatic and social duties.
Wishing the fullest prosperity to the American Government and people, etc.,