Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the Chilean Army be replaced by U. S. troops during the hold- ing of the plebiscite in the two provinces, or that a police force re- cruited from the indigenous population be substituted...
...That Peruvians expelled from the provinces by Chile and who were resident there for five years or more be permitted to vote in the plebiscite which is to decide whether the provinces are to remain Chilean or to revert to Peru...
...Provinces of Tarapaca, Tacna and Arica, were seized by Chile in the Chile-Peruvian War. According to the Treaty of Ancon (1883, ratified 1884), which ended the war, the fate of the latter two Provinces was to be decided in 1894 by a plebiscite, after they had been under Chilean authority for ten years. If the Provinces reverted to Peru, the latter was to pay Chile $5,000,000; if the plebiscite favored Chile then Chile's right to the Provinces was to be considered absolute...
...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...
...Will one of these sidling, loquacious ones ever be a huge brown Argentine with a mane like a privet hedge? Luis Angel Firpo, will he ever tell unbelievers how he was "cheated" out of the boxing crown of South America? Last week, he lost that crown. One Quintin Romero, Chilean, has long thumped his tom-tom, shouted that he would have Luis' blood. The South American Boxing Commission heeded his beatings, his shoutings. Holding that the Wild Bull of the Pampas had not answered within a reasonable time this Chile-bean's challenge, they took away his title...