Office of the Historian

840.51 FC 22/7–1244: Airgram

The Ambassador in Ecuador (Scotten) to the Secretary of State

Quito, July 12, 1944—2 p.m.
[Received July 18—8 a.m.]

A–349.…

… It was indicated in Report No. 5086 that the new Government was giving every assurance of cooperation and firmness in maintaining the controls already established and events since the date of the Report give no reason to believe that the assurances were insincere. It is submitted that the cancellation of the “Ecuapetrol”87 concession is an earnest of good faith. An officer of the Embassy has been working closely with the new Director of the Control. Each point of the agreement made with the former government as a condition precedent to the deletion program has been discussed with him in detail and he has stated that he is in complete accord.

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Scotten
  1. Not printed; this was a monthly report of the Embassy, dated June 19, 1944, on the control of frozen and blocked properties.↩
  2. Ecuapetrol, Cía. Petrolera y Comercial, a Proclaimed List firm dealing in oil.↩