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Last week in the town of Arica, capital of the Chilean Province of Arica, began the last act of the drama called the Tacna-Arica dispute-a dispute to which Peru and Chile are parties...
General Pershing, punctilious President of the Commission, patted both Chile and Peru on the back in language that might have caused a professional diplomat's cheeks to suffuse with fiery shame. Urbanities over, he came soldierly to the point...
Distinguished Señor Edwards of Chile replied impassionately...
...noble initiative of the President of the United States, the good judgment of the peoples of Peru and Chile and the wisdom of their rulers made it possible to find in President Harding first, and in President Coolidge afterward, an artisan who should repair the broken link by laying down rules for carrying out the only unfullfilled clause of the treaty which sealed peace after four years of war. He, having agreed to be our arbitrator, gave us those rules, and it was resolved that under his Excellency's wise, masterly guidance we should form a commission to supervise...
...hope it will be the last, for such an act implies the existence of differences unwarranted by geographical and racial circumstances on this continent. Chile . . . will do all in her power to help America exhibit this plebiscite to the world as a model and as a genuine expression of that self-determination of peoples which is the axle on which revolves the very political existence of the New World...