Word: peru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Eugene Wambaugh '76 formerly Langdell Professor of Law at the University, has been engaged by the Peruvian Government as special counsel during the plebiscite which will settle the Tacna-Arica territorial dispute, a controversy o flong standing between Chile and Peru. He has already left for Lima where he will join his daughter, Miss Sarah Wambaugh, also an adviser to the Peruvian Government...
...Swampscott came a lank stern Senator, gray-haired, level browed. In 1906-07 he had delved as an explorer into the wastes of Peru. Later he lectured on his discoveries at Yale and Princeton. Once he had been Governor of Connecticut for a few hours (TIME, Jan. 19, POLITICAL NOTES). During the War he had acted as Commandant of the Allies' largest flying school (at Issoudun, France). In the last three months he has made an investigation of Government air bases and air routes. President Coolidge, conscious of all this, shook the Senator's hand warmly, bid Hiram Bingham, Honolulu...
There is a little strip of territory between Peru and Chile, called Tacna-Arica, which both countries claim and nobody really owns pending a plebiscite ordered by President Coolidge as arbitrator. If there is any man who really rules the little strip it is General John J. Pershing, President of the Plebiscite Commission, who is sitting tight in the little town of Arica...
General Pershing, punctilious President of the Commission, patted both Chile and Peru on the back in language that might have caused a professional diplomat's cheeks to suffuse with fiery shame. Urbanities over, he came soldierly to the point...
...noble initiative of the President of the United States, the good judgment of the peoples of Peru and Chile and the wisdom of their rulers made it possible to find in President Harding first, and in President Coolidge afterward, an artisan who should repair the broken link by laying down rules for carrying out the only unfullfilled clause of the treaty which sealed peace after four years of war. He, having agreed to be our arbitrator, gave us those rules, and it was resolved that under his Excellency's wise, masterly guidance we should form a commission to supervise...