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Book Reviews and Notices
other important countries like Argentina, Brazil and Chile in
the same period.
Volumes III and IV make a most welcome contribution of
basicly important source material for an understanding of Cen-
tral American internal history and of United States-Central
American relations in the three decades under survey.
The period in Chilean history to which the documents in
Volume V relate coincides almost exactly with the Conservative
r6gime, 1830-1861. This regime in the main was characterized
by internal peace, progress, prosperity and political stability. In
the field of foreign relations Chile, in this period, had a much
less positive and vigorous foreign policy than that which was in-
itiated with the active aggressions of Spain on the west coast
of South America in the late 1860s. While this is true, Chile
in the 1830s, in the interest of national security, broke up by
force the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, and, in the next two
decades continued actively to uphold, by participation in two
Latin-American international congresses-one at Lima in 1846-
1847 and the other in Santiago in 1856-her earlier announced
support of the principle of Latin-American solidarity, as opposed
to possible non-Latin-American aggression. The last mentioned
congress was occasioned very largely by the fears of South Ameri-
can nations that were aroused by the United States-Mexican war
and the activities of William Walker in Central America.
The internal affairs of Chile and its foreign policy alike in
the period under survey seem not to have concerned very deeply
most of the United States diplomats in Chile. Accordingly, so
few diplomatic documents accumulated in this period that when
published they constitute only about one-third of Volume V.
While much of this published material is important and consti-
tutes a contribution to students of Chilean history, many subjects
which properly should have been discussed are ignored. For this
default, obviously, the various diplomatic representatives of the
United States-due to their lack of knowledge of or interest in
many subjects of historical importance-are to be blamed. As a
specific example, the published correspondence contains very lit-
tle with reference to Chile's attitude toward the United States
during and after the Mexican war and while William Walker was
active in Central America. The most fruitful documents for the
historical investigator are those sent by Charge d'Affaires Richard241
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