. Review of reviews and world's work . -gested to the former the idea of a partitionof Bolivia, at that time in the throes of arevolution, and it also appeared that thisidea was not distasteful to Roca. If hefailed to give it a warm welcome, this issaid to have been because he could not clearlysee a way to accomplish this internationaloffense. It is well known that the failure of theBillinghurst-Latorre treaty, which providedfor the decision of the question of sovereigntyover Tacna and Arica, in accord with thetreaty of Ancon, was due to the avertingat this Magellan conference of an imminentda
. Review of reviews and world's work . -gested to the former the idea of a partitionof Bolivia, at that time in the throes of arevolution, and it also appeared that thisidea was not distasteful to Roca. If hefailed to give it a warm welcome, this issaid to have been because he could not clearlysee a way to accomplish this internationaloffense. It is well known that the failure of theBillinghurst-Latorre treaty, which providedfor the decision of the question of sovereigntyover Tacna and Arica, in accord with thetreaty of Ancon, was due to the avertingat this Magellan conference of an imminentdanger of w^ar between Chile and the Ar-gentine Republic. In 1900, Sefior Angel Custodio Vicufia,plenipotentiary of Chile at Lima, Peru, didnot hesitate to propose to President Romanaand Chancellor Osma the partition of Bo-livia, whose rich territory offered, as he said,ample compensations for the expenses andefforts entailed by the enterprise. TheChilean cabinet doubtless judged that Peru,having lost all hope of securing the plebiscite. THE CONDOR (cHILe) AND THE LLAMA (PERU) Condor; Dont pretend to mount so high, wretchedquadruped! To do so one must have the wings of thecondor. From Succsos (Chile) LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH 433 stipulated for in the treaty of Ancon, wouldshow the same lack of scruple as did Chile,and that consequently, after weighing theadvantages resulting from the conquest of avast territory, fertile agriculturally and richin minerals, against her role of an idealisticclaimant of a tract relatively poor, like theprovinces of Tacna and Arica, she wouldperhaps vacillate for a moment, but wouldfinally yield to the ignoble temptation toenrich herself by the destruction of a friend-ly nation. The infamous proposition aroused suchindignation in the minds of PresidentRomana and Osma, that they did not stopan instant to consider the propriety of com-pletely unveiling Chiles design, but repliedby a categorical rejection. Naturally Chiledenied that such a proposal
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