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...cure the 46-year-old Tacna-Tacna pain in the left side of South America, statesmen of Chile and Peru met late one night last week in rustic, thatch-roofed Tacna City. At midnight they began to sign 138 peace-potent documents...
Midnight was the hour at which there came automatically into effect the new Tacna-Arica Treaty (TIME, May 27) by which the disputed province of Tacna-Arica is partitioned, Chile keeping Arica and ceding Tacna to Peru. To make this transfer doubly binding, doubly impressive, Government property in Tacna Province was divided into 138 parcels, each to be signed over separately. As midnight tolled, the pen-scratching tournament began...
...long-standing controversy over Tacna-Arica has been settled substantially m accordance with
...Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore of Peru, returning last fornight to the U. S., gave full credit for the Tacna-Arica settlement to Herbert Hoover...
...Landlocked Bolivia's last hopes of obtaining a seaport from powerful Chile after the so-called Hoover settlement of the Tacna-Arica boundary dispute, went glimmering last week. By the Hoover settlement (TIME, May 27), the Tacna-Arica coastal region was divided between Chile and Peru; Bolivia's protestations were ignored. But the U. S. State Department let it be known that Bolivia was quite at liberty to make any arrangements with Chile that she could. Before Bolivia could get up momentum for a renewed appeal, Chile last week issued an indirect but nonetheless effective quasher. Her Minister...