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Twilight lasts all a summer's night in the Baltic countries. The air becomes heavy with dreams. Sometimes the nobility roam abroad troubled or sleep in peace under the stars, like peasants. They feel a change upon their world which philosophers say is more than the passing of the seasons. A twilight is falling, some say, upon the feudal order of things...
...Pavel the Daredevil" it was, who, at 26, big, jovial and reckless, won over the sailors of the Baltic fleet to Bolshevism and thus sealed the doom of Alexander Kerensky. Returning to Moscow a hero, he enraged such serious-minded Communists as Lenin and Trotsky by light-heartedly dragging off to his bed and board a lady undeniably fair but old enough to be his mother. The great Lenin, scandalized at his philandering in an hour of crisis, very nearly had the hero shot, and Leon Trotsky was especially loud in demanding his execution. Next day a mob of sailors...
...molpe, there gradually grew the drama, and the other forms of literature, as we now know them. From it arose on the shores of the Aegean the story of Orestes, one of the most poetical of Greek characters; from it there sprung up among the Norsemen of the Baltic the ancient saga of Hamlet...
President Lauri Relander of Finland left Helsingfors last week, sailed across the Baltic, sped by rail down through Sweden, crossed over to Copenhagen, famed "Paris of the North...
...neutrality and non-aggression with Soviet Russia. The treaty is to run for five years and contains a clause recognizing the territory of Vilna as Lithuanian. Poles were vexed, since Poland claims that Vilna is Polish. Moscow newsorgans hailed the pact as a blow to British influence in the Baltic...