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After a stormy session the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission adopted a motion presented by its chairman, General John J. Pershing, in which April 15, 1926, is definitely established as the date for holding the long-delayed plebiscite to determine whether Chile or Peru shall have Tacna-Arica. The motion opens with a preamble scoring Chile, of which Tacna-Arica is now a province for obstructing the efforts of the Commission to prepare for a free and unbiased plebiscite. Chile is specifically charged with having violated the terms laid down by President Coolidge as arbiter* of the dispute. Further, Chile...
Last week the deliberations of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission,* chairmaned by General John J. Pershing, reached an acute stage of discord when the Chilean representative, Agustin Edwards, withdrew from the Commission, protesting that there had been needless delay in promulgating the terms of the plebiscite, and that after four months of marking time no date for it had actually been...
...Sitting at Arica, port of the Chilean-governed province of Tacna-Arica, to supervise a plebiscite ordered by President Coolidge, as arbitrator, to decide the future sovereignty of the provinces of Tacna and Arica, wrested by Chile from Peru when those nations were embroiled in the early '80's (TIME, Aug. 3, et ante...
...installation of a U. S. Mayor at Callao is in line with President Leguía's known policy of favoring U. S. citizens in matters civil and local. At the same time it was recalled that he has contended bitterly for every last square inch of Tacna-Arica which can be allocated to Peru under President Coolidge's award (TIME, April...
Last week an article by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, calling upon America to "back up the President" and join the World Court was published; today are printed the critical arguments of another Yale professor. Counsel for Permanent Tacna-Africa Arbitration, and a former Assistant Solicitor in the Department of State, Professor Edwin M. Borchard of the Yale Law School analyzes the World Court and attempts to refute the arguments of the proponents of American adherence. The article, published by courtesy of the Yale news, follows...