Word: tacna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commission representing Peru in the Tacna-Arica dispute (TIME, Nov. 26), soon to be arbitrated by U. S. President Coolidge, presented its final brief. The final brief of Chile, the second party to the dispute, was momentarily expected...
...That Chile should account to Peru for damages sustained by the unlawful occupancy of Tacna-Arica during the last 30 years...
...That all investments and improvements made by Chile during her ocupancy of Tacna-Arica were made at her peril and may not be recovered...
...That Peruvian citizens should be reimbursed for their property left behind in their flight from Tacna-Arica...
...Treaty of Ancon (1883, ratified in 1884) Peru lost forever the province of Tarapacá, but the provinces of Tacna and Arica were to be submitted to a plebiscite after a period of ten years had elapsed, and if the provinces were subsequently returned to Peru, that country was to pay Chile about $5,000,000. But when the time came to hold the plebiscite, Chile and Argentina were at loggerheads and Peru was convulsed with internal disorder over the election of a successor to President Morales Bermudez, who had suddenly died. Nothing could be done at that time...