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Major-General Lassiter: that a plebiscite to determine the sovereignty of Tacna-Arica cannot be held (TIME, June 21) because of coercion by Chile of Peruvian voters. . . . "Lassiter has no right to accuse us of such an offense, the U. S. robbed and took by force the territories that she now owns and which before belonged to Mexico and other nations. Nor should we forget that she usurped territory from Colombia. It is not, then, a General of that nation who has the right to accuse...
...Arica, General Lassiter quietly wound up the affairs of the U. S.-chairmaned Chile-Peruvian plebiscitary commission (TIME, Nov. 26, 1923 et seq.). He was hissed and booed by a Chilean mob. The Chilean member of the Commission, Señor Augustin R. Edwards, refused to attend its last session. The Chilean police refused to open the Commission hall. General Lassiter made use of a nearby office. Finally he embarked with his staff aboard the U. S. battleship Galveston, prepared to sail...
...Washington the Chilean Ambassador informed Secretary Kellogg that: 1) Chile considers General Lassiter's conduct "illegal and exceeding the powers vested in him"; 2) Chile will no longer participate in the informal Tacna- Arica negotiations instituted at Washington by Secretary Kellogg (TIME, April...
...people of the United States know nothing of what has been going on in Arica. They do not understand the question. This is, in part, due to the secret negotiations which Secretary of State Kellogg has been carrying on in Washington, only releasing what he thought suitable to the press...
Seemingly the only hope of settlement lies in the heretofore abortive efforts to negotiate a diplomatic settlement at Washington (TIME, May 17), which continue among the Chilean and Peruvian Ambassadors and Secretary Kellogg. The latest proposal to be seriously discussed was the creation of a Bolivian corridor through Tacna-Arica to the sea-Tacna-Arican territory north and south of the corridor to be held respectively by Peru and Chile...