Word: peruvian
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...Created by the arbitral award of President Coolidge (TIME, March 16) to administer a plebiscite for the purpose of determining whether the once Peruvian province of Tacna-Arica, now a part of Chile, shall be returned to Peru. The plebiscite, should have been held in 1894, according to the Treaty of Ancon in 1884; but after decades of wrangling, Chile and Peru voluntarily admitted the hopelessness of trying to hold it themselves and referred the matter to the President of the U.S. Chile desires Tacna-Arica as a strategic "buffer province" to protect her valuable nitrate fields from Peru. Peru...
...Freyre, the Peruvian representative on the Commission, naturally supported General Pershing. Señor Edwards, the Chilean Commissioner, who withdrew a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 7) as a protest against the Commission's "needless delay" in holding the plebiscite, was again on hand and demanded that Feb. 1 be set as the voting date. He again contended that Chile had no intention of coercing the voters and said that the Commission's instructions had been complied with to the letter...
...Methodist Episcopal Board of Foreign Missions announced at New York that Dictator-President Leguía has taken it upon himself to appoint a U. S. Methodist Episcopal medical missionary, Dr. Eugene A. MacCornack, as Alcalde (Mayor) of the ancient Peruvian city of Callao, seaport to Lima. Straightway it was recalled that Dr. MacCornack has long been superintendent of the British-American Hospital at Lima, Peruvian capital, and that he has frequently had occasion to attend professionally both the indomitable Señor Leguía and numerous members of his militant Administration...
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...
...experience as counsel in national and international cases has been extensive previous to his present engagement. During the war he was special adviser to the State Department on war problems. He became known to the Peruvian Government in 1915 when he was appointed the member from the United States on the permanent international commission provided for under the treaty with Peru in that year. In 1917 he was also appointed chief of the constitutional and international law division of the Judge Advocate's Section of the Officers' Reserve Corps...