The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Fox.
Washington, July 13, 1910.
With the cooperation of your Brazilian and Argentine colleagues you may join in representations to the Government in this sense:
It is essential that the contending powers do not needlessly jeopardize the success of the mediation by recriminations as to the good faith in which disarmament and withdrawal are being carried out, which can only result in greater tension. The mediating powers have received solemn, although general, pledges from the contending powers on these points. You will immediately impress upon the Ecuadorean Government the urgent necessity for greater forbearance and for confidence in the mediating powers which are equally jealous of the reciprocity of military withdrawal and demobilization, have already made representations based on the reported complaints, and are now devising means to make amply precise the steps toward a peace footing.
Quote to Lima.