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Toward the end of July, the Prince will set sail for South America, in which continent he will visit Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, possibly Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, returning through the Panama Canal to Portsmouth or Plymouth on completing an eight months' tour...
...President Calvin Coolidge's award in the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chile and Peru (TIME, Mar. 16) was read with great rejoicing in the former country and with passive indignation in the latter...
When 1894 came along, Chile was having boundary difficulties with Argentina ; Peru was turned upside down over the election of a successor to President Morales Bermudez. A plebiscite was then impossible. In after years, several unsuccessful attempts were made to settle the dispute; and an ugly situation was rapidly being created when U. S. President Harding suggested that the case be brought to Washington and submitted to arbitration. This offer was accepted and President Coolidge has made his award...
...dispute raged around Chile's contention that the question must be settled by plebiscite; Peru said that, owing to the fact that the population had been changed during the past 30 years, a plebiscite was no longer fair...
...That a special commission, composed of one Chilean, one Peruvian and one U. S. citizen, be appointed within four months and assemble at Arica within six months to fix the date of the plebiscite. The conditions under which the plebiscite is to be held are partly favorable to Chile, partly to Peru, but all of them are designed to permit free and fair expression of the will of the people of Tacna and Arica...