Word: peru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassadors Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of Spain, Chile, Belgium, Argentina, Peru, France, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Japan, Brazil and Cuba; the Ministers Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Uruguay, Switzerland, China, Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Guatemala, Colombia, Panama, Jugoslavia, Costa Rica, Holland, Bolivia, Esthonia, Lithuania, Irish Free State, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Austria, Latvia, Egypt, Poland and Bulgaria; the Charges d'Affaires of Salvador, Persia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, San Domingo and Roumania; the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Secretary of State of the U. S.; the President of the U. S.; and the respective ladies...
After a stormy session the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission adopted a motion presented by its chairman, General John J. Pershing, in which April 15, 1926, is definitely established as the date for holding the long-delayed plebiscite to determine whether Chile or Peru shall have Tacna-Arica. The motion opens with a preamble scoring Chile, of which Tacna-Arica is now a province for obstructing the efforts of the Commission to prepare for a free and unbiased plebiscite. Chile is specifically charged with having violated the terms laid down by President Coolidge as arbiter* of the dispute. Further, Chile...
...request of both Chile and Peru, who have been embroiled almost immemorially over Tacna-Arica (TIME. Dec. 7) et ante...
...been asked whether such an absolutist can justify his rule. Always Leguía has been able to point to his signal achievements in administering the finances of the republic and extending its commercial prosperity. Today he is in the habit of asserting that the national debt of Peru is smaller per capita than that of any other nation. Often he remarks with satisfaction upon the large investments of U. S. capital in Peru, and the number of U. S. business men who have gone thither...
...Callao is in line with President Leguía's known policy of favoring U. S. citizens in matters civil and local. At the same time it was recalled that he has contended bitterly for every last square inch of Tacna-Arica which can be allocated to Peru under President Coolidge's award (TIME, April...