Word: tacna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these days when the word Imperialism first begins to make its appearance in criticisms of the foreign policies of the United States, when the interest of the whole nation is focused on the Nicaraguan situation, on the Tacna-Anca problem, and on Mexico, and when the Latin-American nations seem to be arousing into an audible self-consciousness for the first time, everything concerning Latin-America is of interest. For this reason vagabonds, desiring to insure that completely rounded set of interests which admits them to the ranks of the intelligentsia and cognoscenti, will attend Professor Haring's lecture...
...Despatched through his Foreign Minister Conrado Rios a belligerent proclamation to Chileans in Tacna-Arica:* "You must not be afraid for the future of Tacna-Arica. That territory can only be robbed from our dominion and flag by force of bayonets. The time nears to notify the American nations that the will of the Chilean people is to terminate United States intervention and fix our boundary on the River Sama line. If Peru continues her haughty demands Chile accordingly is under the moral obligation to declare that Tacna-Arica will be annexed to its dominion...
...territory in dispute between Chile and Peru for three generations. Since the Harding Administration the U. S. has sought to mediate, but the recent Chile-U.S.-Peruvian conference upon Tacna-Arica came to an abortive end ( TIME, March 16, 1925 to June...
...Secretary of State Was informed by the Peruvian Government last week that its answer was in the negative, to his proposal that the Tacna-Arica question be solved by ceding to Bolivia this territory, so long claimed by both Peru and Chile (TIME, Dec. 13 et ante...
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Secretary Kellogg's document is that it is written in the first person with that kindly conceit which is so effective for successful diplomacy. For example, he writes at the beginning: "The Tacna-Arica controversy has engaged my closest attention ever since I assumed the duties of Secretary of State. All of my predecessors in this office during the past 40 years have followed with the deepest interest the varying phases of the problem, and several Secretaries, especially my immediate predecessor, Mr. Hughes, have been intimately concerned, as I have been, with...