Word: peru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends of "career men" were disappointed when they heard that the desirable portfolio to Peru was to be entrusted to large, loquacious Alexander Pollock Moore (see THE CABINET...
...Ministry at Lima. President Coolidge is most sensitive to criticism of his appointments and people who have not seen Mr. Moore lately still think of him as a Pittsburgher of the burghiest. Why should President Coolidge choose Mr. Moore? 'Why, moreover, should Mr. Moore want to go to Peru...
...still, why should Mr. Moore want to go to Peru? Peru is far away. Lima society is exciting, but very limited. After Madrid, Mr. Moore would find it paltry if not provincial. And aside from the absurd Tacna-Arica dispute, in which the U. S. is a laughed-at arbiter, no momentous Peruvian problem awaits solution by a stalwart U. S. patriot. True, there is talk that U. S. bankers are planning handsome developments, which is to say exploitations, in Peru. But Mr. Moore, with all the money a man could decently desire, is far above being a dollar diplomatist...
...further pious interjection was made by Chief Bolivian Delegate Jose Antezana who plaintively remarked that his country has no outlet to the sea, but did not quite dare to propose that she be given one through Tacna-Arica, that notorious region so immemorially in dispute between Chile and Peru (TIME...
...vote of its members. Curiously enough, this ruling seemed to meet with the approval of most Latins. Since sagacious Mr. Hughes had called their outstanding bluff, they were as anxious as he to favor a procedure which would prevent, for example, loud squabbles between those embittered rivals Chile and Peru...