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...signers of the Tacna-Arica boundary agreement, which ended South America's 46-year-old sideache (TIME, May 27), were chosen last week as subjects for the first picture to be sent by direct air mail from Peru...
...face while the photograph was being taken suggested that now at last his countrymen must understand why he, after having been U. S. Ambassador to glamorous Spain, was willing to accept the little Peruvian portfolio. There was work to be done at Lima. He was needed to settle the Tacna-Arica question. Now he had attended to that matter, under President Hoover's guidance, of course. All this his smile seemed to imply -but it really meant nothing of the kind. The so-called Hoover Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile, and the twin mining province...
Acclaimed last week was President Hoover's settlement of the Tacna-Arica boundary dispute-South America's 46-year-old sideache. Only the voice of Bolivia was raised in dissent, but nobody paid attention to Bolivia...
...adjoining Pacific provinces of Tacna and Arica were captured from Peru and Bolivia by Chile. It was agreed that after ten years a plebiscite would be held wherein the two provinces could de cide to whom they wished to belong. The plebiscite never occurred...
President Coolidge had little success with the problem. Last week President Hoover announced his solution of the boundary dispute. It provided: 1) Chile to retain Arica and its nitrate fields, Peru to take Tacna with its vineyards; 2) Chile to pay Peru six million dollars; to deliver all government buildings in Tacna to Peru without cost; 3) both nations to erect jointly a monument on the morro of Arica to commemorate the peaceful settlement of the dispute...