822.01/135: Telegram
The Ambassador in Ecuador (Scotten) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:42 p.m.]
557. I have just received a note signed by the new Minister for Foreign Affairs dated June 1st reading in translation as follows:
“I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that on the 29th of the last month Dr. Carlos A. Arroyo del Río presented his resignation as first magistrate of the Republic, the provisional exercise of the Government being assumed by the Political Section [Board] of the Alianza Democrática Ecuatoriania until the arrival in this capital of Dr. José María Velasco Ibarra, summoned by the people and the Armed Forces of the country to direct the destinies of the Republic.
Dr. Velasco Ibarra arrived yesterday and took possession of the Presidency of the Republic in deference to the popular plebiscite.
(Here follows a list of the Cabinet Ministers reported in Embassy’s telegram No. 545, June 114). The new Government has declared the constitution of 1916 [1906] to be in force and has convoked a meeting of the Constituent Assembly for the 10th of next August.
The Government to which I have the honor of belonging guarantees in the internal sphere all political liberties; and it will have as the criterion of its international relations respect for law and the inviolability of all the international conventions, treaties and agreements, in which Ecuador has taken part. The Ecuadorian Government ratifies its adherence to the principles for which the democratic nations are struggling and its decision that the country will continue collaborating effectively as it has been doing up to now with the Allied and Associated Nations. It offers for the same reason its loyal cooperation to the friendly nations of Ecuador for the development of their mutual relations of every kind and for working jointly in the solution of the grave problems which civilization now confronts.
In bringing the above to the knowledge of Your Excellency it is a particular honor for me to manifest to you that my government will have the pleasure of continuing to cultivate the friendly relations which Ecuador maintains with the nation which Your Excellency worthily represents.
I avail myself, et cetera.”
I will not of course acknowledge this note pending receipt of instructions from the Department.
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