DEPARTMENT OF STATE Memorandum of Conversation
Subject: Farewell Call by Ambassador Dillon of Ecuador
Participants: Dean G. Acheson, Secretary of State Augusto Dillon, Ambassador of Ecuador Edgar L. McGinnis, Jr., NWC
Copies to: AR, S/S-PR, Embassy-Quito
Ambassador Dillon called upon me today at 3:00 p.m. to pay his farewell respects. After an expression of regret on my part that Ambassador Dillon was leaving, there followed a brief conversation including a discussion of the disastrous Ecuadoran earthquake of August 5, 1949 and of that country's progress toward reconstruction of the devastated areas.
At the conclusion of the visit I expressed the hope that the Government of Ecuador would shortly ratify the Rio Treaty. Ambassador Dillon replied that he expected that the Treaty would be presented to the Ecuadoran Congress at its next session beginning August 10 and that he hoped that it would be ratified. He remarked that Ecuador is among the five American states that have not yet ratified the Treaty.
Dean G. Acheson
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