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...Weeks came over the mountains to Chile after his visit to the more southern countries, and was a quiet spectator at the Tacna-Arica tribunal being conducted under General Pershing. "Very little has been accomplished there to date," he said, "and General Pershing will undoubtedly return at least temporarily to this country...
From Arica, Chile, General Pershing, Chairman of the Tacna-Arica...
Tongues wagged their fastest. It began to be widely believed that General Pershing had found it utterly impossible to cajole or coerce Chile and Peru into agreeing on the terms of a fair Tacna-Arica plebiscite. Naturally Chile was supposed to concede the final break on account of the "appeal" to President Coolidge, and because of the recent Pershing-baiting tactics of Senor Edwards, the Chilean representative on the Commission (TIME...
...vain the State Department and the Spokesman of the White House proclaimed that so far as they knew General Pershing would return to Tacna-Arica when he regained his health, and that the President would certainly not cease to mediate between Chile and Peru. The rumor persisted that General Pershing was not ill, and was backed up by news cables from Arica which described him as enjoying perfectly good health...
...Created by the arbitral award of President Coolidge (TIME, March 16) to administer a plebiscite for the purpose of determining whether the once Peruvian province of Tacna-Arica, now a part of Chile, shall be returned to Peru. The plebiscite, should have been held in 1894, according to the Treaty of Ancon in 1884; but after decades of wrangling, Chile and Peru voluntarily admitted the hopelessness of trying to hold it themselves and referred the matter to the President of the U.S. Chile desires Tacna-Arica as a strategic "buffer province" to protect her valuable nitrate fields from Peru. Peru...