Word: peru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Toward the end of July, the Prince will set sail for South America, in which continent he will visit Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, possibly Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, returning through the Panama Canal to Portsmouth or Plymouth on completing an eight months' tour...
...President Calvin Coolidge's award in the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chile and Peru (TIME, Mar. 16) was read with great rejoicing in the former country and with passive indignation in the latter...
...dispute raged around Chile's contention that the question must be settled by plebiscite; Peru said that, owing to the fact that the population had been changed during the past 30 years, a plebiscite was no longer fair...
...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...
...That the northern boundary of the two Provinces is to be that claimed by Peru; that the southern boundary is to be fixed by a special commission along the old Peruvian inter-provincial boundary lines...