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...step on Chilean soil, as would have been necessary, before paying his respects to Chile's highest officials at Santiago. The Bolivians had come to him after requesting permission from Chile to travel through what used to be Bolivia's corridor to the sea, the long-disputed Tacna-Arica district at the juncture of Bolivia, Chile & Peru...
Reasons making the Antofagasta stop worthwhile for all concerned: 1) More U. S. capital is invested in Bolivia (tin, oil) than in any other S. A. country; 2) the U. S. holds all Bolivia's external debt bonds. 3) the Tacna-Arica dispute might be settled some day by letting Bolivia buy back her road-to-the-sea, as suggested by Secretary Kellogg...
Chileans are convinced that theirs is a race of destiny. Even this pretension is not an idle one. By the War of the Pacific (1879-82) Chileans wrested from ineffectual Bolivians the region of Antofagasta and from Peruvians not only Tarapaca but Arica an Tacna...
...three major effects: 1) Bolivia, third largest South American country, was cut off from all access to the sea; 2) Chile acquired the largest nitrate fields in the world, taxes from which now supply over half the revenues of the Chilean Treasury; and 3) Peru was deprived even of Tacna and Arica, without which strategic provinces she cannot hope to wrest back her ravished nitrate fields...
...Treaty of Ancon (1883), which concluded the War of the Pacific, it was provided that a plebiscite be eventually held in Tacna-Arica, to determine its final sovereignty. The signal diplomatic defeat of the Coolidge Administration has been their failure to arrange the holding of this plebiscite, under the auspices of General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. When local rivalries, dishonesties and backbitings were found to present unsurmountable obstacles, it was discovered that "Black Jack's" teeth needed expert U. S. attention (TIME, Jan. n, 1926) and he sailed for home. Subsequently appearances have been patched up by Secretary...