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After decades of nugatory wrangling, Chile and Peru brought their dispute over the provinces of Tacna and Arica before the President of the U. S. for arbitration...
...case for Chile is that she favors a plebiscite, as laid down in the Treaty of Ancon which ended the War of 1879-1882, to decide whether Tacna and Arica shall be returned to Peru or remain under the sovereignty of Chile...
...eyes, to "transform the Treaty [Treaty of Ancon] providing for temporary administration into a unilateral annexation; it would in time of peace constitute a conquest without precedent; it would be a shameful and dishonest conquest because it would have been done by deception and fraud." The history of the Tacna-Arica dispute starts from the peace settlement of the Chile-Peruvian...
...Treaty of Ancon (1883, ratified in 1884) Peru lost forever the province of Tarapacá, but the provinces of Tacna and Arica were to be submitted to a plebiscite after a period of ten years had elapsed, and if the provinces were subsequently returned to Peru, that country was to pay Chile about $5,000,000. But when the time came to hold the plebiscite, Chile and Argentina were at loggerheads and Peru was convulsed with internal disorder over the election of a successor to President Morales Bermudez, who had suddenly died. Nothing could be done at that time...
Settlement of the Tacna-Arica territorial dispute between Chile and Peru (which is to be submitted to the arbitration of the President of the U. S.), was postponed at the request of the Chilean Government...