Word: tacna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read of Ambassador Morrow's achievement, last week, could learn without keen interest that his brother, Colonel Jay Johnson Morrow, is now busy in Manhattan as chairman of a commission which is attempting to reconcile certain special boundary claims between Chile & Peru arising out of the general perennial Tacna-Arica controversy (TIME...
...still, why should Mr. Moore want to go to Peru? Peru is far away. Lima society is exciting, but very limited. After Madrid, Mr. Moore would find it paltry if not provincial. And aside from the absurd Tacna-Arica dispute, in which the U. S. is a laughed-at arbiter, no momentous Peruvian problem awaits solution by a stalwart U. S. patriot. True, there is talk that U. S. bankers are planning handsome developments, which is to say exploitations, in Peru. But Mr. Moore, with all the money a man could decently desire, is far above being a dollar diplomatist...
...further pious interjection was made by Chief Bolivian Delegate Jose Antezana who plaintively remarked that his country has no outlet to the sea, but did not quite dare to propose that she be given one through Tacna-Arica, that notorious region so immemorially in dispute between Chile and Peru (TIME...
...Enrique Villegas (Chile), President of the League Council, astounded Geneva when he virtually declared in a public session that he saw no reason why the League should not interest itself in Latin-American affairs. It was even thought that the League might be asked to settle the long outstanding Tacna-Arica dispute (TIME, June 21, 28, 1926). Said British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain: "The League of Nations must become a reality, a personality in the eyes of the more distant nations belonging...
...unrevealed cause, then sank. Bolivians are vexed because their country has no seaport, being completely surrounded by Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and (completing the clockwise circle) Chile. Everyone knows that a solution urged by the U. S. State Department to settle the dispute between Chile and Peru over Tacna-Arica (TIME, Dec. 13,) is the proposal that this bit of territory be given to Bolivia as a "corridor to the ocean" (Pacific...