Peaceful Projection

Projections of the U. S., last week, into foreign affairs:

Chile & Peru. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg induced the republics of Chile and Peru to promise that they will resume, at some proximate but unspecified future time, the mutual diplomatic relations which they broke off in 1911.

Previously, for 23 years, Chile and Peru had been negotiating acrimoniously over the disputed provinces of Tacna and Arica (TIME, March 7). They may now resume these negotiations, thus relieving the U. S. of much Latin American blame, which was incurred when the President of the U. S. did not succeed in settling the Tacna-Arica question, after accepting the joint invitations of Chile and Peru to act as arbiter (TIME, March 16, 1925 et seq.).

Nicaragua. Early practical results of the present U. S. Marine intervention in Nicaragua (TIME, Nov. 29, 1926 et seq.) were the defeat and flight of a Liberal President, and the maintenance in power of a Conservative President. Last week a Liberal victory at the forthcoming Nicaraguan election seemed imminent, because the Conservatives are split into two factions, each claiming to be the "Historic Conservative Party." Therefore General Frank Ross McCoy charged by President Coolidge with the supervision of the Nicaraguan election, ruled that neither Conservative faction would be allowed to present a Presidential Candidate representing "The Historic Conservative Party" and intimated in the strongest terms his hope that they will reunite and support a single candidate against the Liberals.

If the General's hope is fulfilled, the Conservatives may yet win.

Multilateral. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg was reported by a State Department official, last week, to be "giving some thought" to a project for unanimous signing, at Paris next fall, of his Multilateral Treaty "outlawing war as an instrument of national policy." Germany, France and Italy sent notes last week, telling their willingness to sign, and similar responses were expected from other invited states.