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Peru Reported Unwilling to Accept Kellogg’s Plan in the Tacna-Arica Dispute
President Leguia’s New Year message hints the idea of ceding the provinces to Bolivia is unacceptable, and a Chilean paper scoffs at U.S. mediation.
Peru may reject Secretary of State Kellogg’s proposal for ending the Tacna-Arica quarrel with Chile, according to Tuesday dispatches. Kellogg suggested that Peru and Chile settle the sovereignty dispute by ceding the two provinces to Bolivia.
The Associated Press said an intimation of refusal was seen in a New Year message from President Leguia, published in La Nacion of Buenos Aires. Leguia wrote that the ideal formula was not one of convenience that substitutes money for the claims of right, but one more in keeping with the spirit of the times that puts justice and honor above petty commercial ambitions.
In Santiago, the afternoon newspaper Ultimas Noticias, published by the same group as El Mercurio, called further American efforts to arbitrate useless, the Evening Star reported. The New Britain Herald carried the headline report that Peru was unwilling to accept Kellogg’s plan.
Sources
- Evening Star (Washington), Jan. 4, 1927: Leguia’s message and the Chilean press <https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1927-01-04/ed-1/?sp=1>
- New Britain Herald, Jan. 4, 1927: report that Peru is balking at the Kellogg plan (AP dispatch) <https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014519/1927-01-04/ed-1/?sp=9>
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