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...Fourteen nations have not yet acknowledged receipt of the State Department's communication. (Great Britain, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia, Hungary, Brazil, Chile, Luxembourg...
Alessandri Rampant. Former President Alessandri of Chile, now a guest of the Chilean Embassy at Washington, declared to news gatherers: "President Coolidge has shown himself incapable of carrying out his decision, as announced in his award*-the Judge has been unable to carry out the sentence-with the result that increased misunderstanding has arisen between Chile and Peru...
Significance. Since 1882 Chile and Peru have been attempting to hold a plebiscite to determine which shall possess in perpetuity the region of Tacna-Arica, wrested at that time by Chile from Peru. During the Harding and Coolidge administrations, the U. S., acting by request of Chile and Peru, sent first General Pershing and then General Lassiter to Tacna-Arica, there to supervise the holding, if possible, of a fair plebiscite...
...colleague Santander, of desiring absolute power for himself, he was sustained in perpetual office until his death (1830, aged 47) by the votes of his countrymen. He lavished nine-tenths of a fortune enormous for its day upon Latin American liberty, encouraged nationalism, arts, science. Few cities from Chile to Mexico are without his statue...
...General Pershing returned from a diplomatic mission to Chile on account of tooth-trouble (TIME, Jan. 11, LATIN AMERICA...