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...Santiago, Chile, the local press succeeded in obtaining the text of U.S. Secretary of State Kellogg's secret proposal for compromise between Chile and Peru as to what shall be done with the disputed area of Tacna-Arica, claimed by both for half a century (TIME, April 19 et ante). The Text: "The Secretary of State has the honor to suggest that in the interest of international peace and a cordial rapprochement between the parties [Chile and Peru], they consider the advisability of a mutual and joint sacrifice whereby either...
...territory of Tacna and Arica shall be constituted a neutralized state, either independent or under the protectorate of South American states, as may be agreed...
...provinces of Tacna and Arica shall be transferred (upon an apportionment of equitable compensation, and appropriate economic arrangements, to be agreed upon) to a South American state not a party to these negotiations...
...effort to terminate almost half a century of nugatory wrangling between Chile and Peru over the province of Tacna-Arica (TIME, Feb. 1 et ante), a dispute in which the U.S. became involved when President Harding acceded to the disputants' request that he act as arbiter, U.S. Secretary of State Kellogg submitted a concrete compromise plan to the Chilean and Peruvian Ambassadors last week at Washington...
...must confess to ignorance even of the geographical where about of Tacna Arica either one of them or both. One should know about such things, though, especially since the New York Times is going to such trouble to promote an interest in current events among effete and sophisticated collegians, and I shall go at 2 o'clock to Sever 11 to hear. Professor Backett explain the matter for the satisfaction and enlightenment of History...