Word: tacna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Arica, Chile, General Pershing, Chairman of the Tacna-Arica...
Simultaneously the State Department announced that the General will return to the U. S. within a few weeks. On the day following this announcement President Coolidge at length authorized the statement that he had received a Chilean appeal respecting the Tacna-Arica situation. The text of this appeal was not made public, although it was supposed to have reached the White House almost a fortnight...
Tongues wagged their fastest. It began to be widely believed that General Pershing had found it utterly impossible to cajole or coerce Chile and Peru into agreeing on the terms of a fair Tacna-Arica plebiscite. Naturally Chile was supposed to concede the final break on account of the "appeal" to President Coolidge, and because of the recent Pershing-baiting tactics of Senor Edwards, the Chilean representative on the Commission (TIME...
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...