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...Following his inauguration, the President was very busy. Congratulations from all over the world poured in. Delegations from many states called. The Republican National Committee called. Secretary of State Kellogg dropped in for a conference. Mr. Coolidge signed his award as arbitrator of the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chila and Peru (see Page 12). He submitted a list of nominations to the Senate, including the renomination of Charles B. Warren to be Attorney General, the nomination of Postmaster General New to succeed himself (see CABINET) and the nomination of Alfred P. Dennis of Maryland, conservative Democrat, to succeed David...
President Coolidge of the U. S., arbitrator of the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chile and Peru, handed down his award last week after 15 months of consideration by the U. S. State Department...
...Provinces of Tarapaca, Tacna and Arica, were seized by Chile in the Chile-Peruvian War. According to the Treaty of Ancon (1883, ratified 1884), which ended the war, the fate of the latter two Provinces was to be decided in 1894 by a plebiscite, after they had been under Chilean authority for ten years. If the Provinces reverted to Peru, the latter was to pay Chile $5,000,000; if the plebiscite favored Chile then Chile's right to the Provinces was to be considered absolute...
...Arica within six months to fix the date of the plebiscite. The conditions under which the plebiscite is to be held are partly favorable to Chile, partly to Peru, but all of them are designed to permit free and fair expression of the will of the people of Tacna and Arica...
...economic rivalry seeking solution in warfare. It is the hope of the future that these states of mind can be resolved through the legal channels of arbitration and judicial settlement, rather than through the extra-legal methods of warfare. The State Department's work on the Tacna-Arica dispute lends one more grain of plausibility to that hope...