LATIN AMERICA: Tacna-Arica

Chilean legislators fulminated last week before the Chamber of Deputies at Santiago, demanded modification of the "Monroe Doctrine," cheered vociferously the slogan "Latin America for Latin Americans!"

Deputy Estay cried: "Chile must repudiate the slander of the U. S.

Major-General Lassiter: that a plebiscite to determine the sovereignty of Tacna-Arica cannot be held (TIME, June 21) because of coercion by Chile of Peruvian voters. . . . "Lassiter has no right to accuse us of such an offense, the U. S. robbed and took by force the territories that she now owns and...