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

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Combs.¹

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, June 15, 1910.

The relative proximity to the frontier of Peruvian troops and even reports scarcely to be credited of their augmentation are not unnaturally causing most regretable anxiety at Quito. Obviously, the withdrawal should be equal and simultaneous.

The moment your Argentine and Brazilian colleagues may be authorized to join in such action you will urge the Government to which you are accredited promptly and quietly to commence or maintain the withdrawal of its forces—those of Ecuador to the city of Guayaquil and the line of the Guayaquil-Quito Railway and those of Peru south of a line substantially equidistant from the frontier, and you will also urge that both speedily demobilize to a peace footing.

Wilson.

1. Same to Minister Fox at Quito.