Word: tacna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Coolidge (after the briefest pause): You know where Tacna-Arica is, Mr. Moore, and I want you to go there...
Since the Hoover cannonade, epochal changes have come upon Peru. In the purses of her citizens are no more libras (Peruvian "pounds") but shiny new soles (Peruvian "suns"*). For the first time in two generations Peru is on friendly terms with Chile, due to the Tacna-Arica accord (TIME, May 27, 1929) negotiated under President Hoover by the late U.S. Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore whom President Coolidge sent to Peru...
President Coolidge: Mr. Moore, I want you to go down and straighten out this Tacna-Arica trouble...
Moore: But Mr. President, I know nothing about it! I don't even know where it is-where is Tacna-Arica...
...powers, Argentina, Brazil, Chile. A network of railways, fine roads have been built. The oil and copper industries have been developed. Peru (not all his compatriots regard this as a blessing) has been opened up for foreign capital. With the aid of U. S. diplomats the 46-year-old Tacna-Arica boundary dispute with Chile has been settled. The disadvantages of the Leguia regime are the disadvantages of any dictatorship. Peruvians have a very great fondness for personal liberty. But in the past 20 years they have had little of it. Hundreds have been exiled, thousands imprisoned...