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Major-General Lassiter: that a plebiscite to determine the sovereignty of Tacna-Arica cannot be held (TIME, June 21) because of coercion by Chile of Peruvian voters. . . . "Lassiter has no right to accuse us of such an offense, the U. S. robbed and took by force the territories that she now owns and which before belonged to Mexico and other nations. Nor should we forget that she usurped territory from Colombia. It is not, then, a General of that nation who has the right to accuse...
...Arica, General Lassiter quietly wound up the affairs of the U. S.-chairmaned Chile-Peruvian plebiscitary commission (TIME, Nov. 26, 1923 et seq.). He was hissed and booed by a Chilean mob. The Chilean member of the Commission, Señor Augustin R. Edwards, refused to attend its last session. The Chilean police refused to open the Commission hall. General Lassiter made use of a nearby office. Finally he embarked with his staff aboard the U. S. battleship Galveston, prepared to sail...
Since the close of the Chile-Peruvian war (1882), these nations have been vainly attempting to hold a plebiscite in order to determine which of them shall have Tacna-Arica in perpetuity, though Chile has administered it ad interim...
...situation is rendered inextricable by the fact that this once-Peruvian region has been gradually "Chileanized" until there is little doubt that the population now on the ground would vote at a plebiscite in a manner quite different from that to have been expected...
Seemingly the only hope of settlement lies in the heretofore abortive efforts to negotiate a diplomatic settlement at Washington (TIME, May 17), which continue among the Chilean and Peruvian Ambassadors and Secretary Kellogg. The latest proposal to be seriously discussed was the creation of a Bolivian corridor through Tacna-Arica to the sea-Tacna-Arican territory north and south of the corridor to be held respectively by Peru and Chile...