The Tacna and Arica Question; Historical Antecedents.--Diplomatic Action. Present State of the Affair (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...find the case of a plebiscite that, in the conception of all the authors of treaties upon the subject, is the most characterestic one, and establishes so decisive a precedent that it forms a principal, we may say, a doctrine. The first article of the Treaty of Turin, dated March 24th i860, stipulates that His Majesty the king of Sardinia consents to the union of Savoy and Nice with France, if this union can be effected without violence to the will of the population, and that the Governments of the Emperor of France and of the king of Sardinia shall, as soon as possible, determine upon the best method of proving and showing the manifestation of this disposition. ) A fortnight afterwards the bases according to which the plebiscite was to be effected, w; re officially published in France, and it was statel that they had been drawn up by the French and Sardinian Governments, without making knowrn the form of the agreement, and without the existence of any Treaty, Protocol or public document. The plebiscite was prepared and directed by French civil and ecclesiastical functionaries, though the votation was received and the scrutiny made by the authorities of the territory, and gave the following results; in Savoy 130,000 votes for the annexation, 2,000 against it; in Nice 25,000 votes for the annexation, and 160 against it. Later plebiscites have less importance. The cession of Venice, made by Austria to Italy, and submitted to the votation of a plebiscite, was effected by 647,246 votes against 69. By the Treaty of Prague the annexation of the Duchy of Schleswig was stipulated, on the condition that if the inhabitants, on being consulted by a plebiscite, showed the wish to remain united to Denmark, ...