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...unrevealed cause, then sank. Bolivians are vexed because their country has no seaport, being completely surrounded by Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and (completing the clockwise circle) Chile. Everyone knows that a solution urged by the U. S. State Department to settle the dispute between Chile and Peru over Tacna-Arica (TIME, Dec. 13,) is the proposal that this bit of territory be given to Bolivia as a "corridor to the ocean" (Pacific...
...these days when the word Imperialism first begins to make its appearance in criticisms of the foreign policies of the United States, when the interest of the whole nation is focused on the Nicaraguan situation, on the Tacna-Anca problem, and on Mexico, and when the Latin-American nations seem to be arousing into an audible self-consciousness for the first time, everything concerning Latin-America is of interest. For this reason vagabonds, desiring to insure that completely rounded set of interests which admits them to the ranks of the intelligentsia and cognoscenti, will attend Professor Haring's lecture...
...Despatched through his Foreign Minister Conrado Rios a belligerent proclamation to Chileans in Tacna-Arica:* "You must not be afraid for the future of Tacna-Arica. That territory can only be robbed from our dominion and flag by force of bayonets. The time nears to notify the American nations that the will of the Chilean people is to terminate United States intervention and fix our boundary on the River Sama line. If Peru continues her haughty demands Chile accordingly is under the moral obligation to declare that Tacna-Arica will be annexed to its dominion...
...territory in dispute between Chile and Peru for three generations. Since the Harding Administration the U. S. has sought to mediate, but the recent Chile-U.S.-Peruvian conference upon Tacna-Arica came to an abortive end ( TIME, March 16, 1925 to June...
...Secretary of State Was informed by the Peruvian Government last week that its answer was in the negative, to his proposal that the Tacna-Arica question be solved by ceding to Bolivia this territory, so long claimed by both Peru and Chile (TIME, Dec. 13 et ante...