Office of the Historian

822.796/428: Telegram

The Minister in Ecuador (Long) to the Secretary of State

Quito, September 9, 1941—10 p.m.
[Received 11:05 p.m.]

302. Reference Department’s telegram No. 233, September 6, 1 [6] p.m.69 It cannot be said that the company has been eliminated. However, it has ceased operations and the Government has placed guards over all its physical properties. Negotiations are now in progress between the Government and the company management for its purchase.

Long
  1. Not printed; it requested a report as to whether Sedta had been definitely eliminated (822.796/427b).↩