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From Arica, Chile, General Pershing, Chairman of the Tacna-Arica...
Simultaneously the State Department announced that the General will return to the U. S. within a few weeks. On the day following this announcement President Coolidge at length authorized the statement that he had received a Chilean appeal respecting the Tacna-Arica situation. The text of this appeal was not made public, although it was supposed to have reached the White House almost a fortnight...
Tongues wagged their fastest. It began to be widely believed that General Pershing had found it utterly impossible to cajole or coerce Chile and Peru into agreeing on the terms of a fair Tacna-Arica plebiscite. Naturally Chile was supposed to concede the final break on account of the "appeal" to President Coolidge, and because of the recent Pershing-baiting tactics of Senor Edwards, the Chilean representative on the Commission (TIME...
...vain the State Department and the Spokesman of the White House proclaimed that so far as they knew General Pershing would return to Tacna-Arica when he regained his health, and that the President would certainly not cease to mediate between Chile and Peru. The rumor persisted that General Pershing was not ill, and was backed up by news cables from Arica which described him as enjoying perfectly good health...
...request of both Chile and Peru, who have been embroiled almost immemorially over Tacna-Arica (TIME. Dec. 7) et ante...