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...provided a scrubbed, perfumed Negro boy to "keep him from getting spoiled by wealth." But he was killed by an automobile when he was nine. Her marriage ended tragically. Hard-drinking Ned McLean's mind gave way-in a moment of wild humor he sent her a Latvian divorce summons done up in a Christmas box decorated with tiny reindeer and holly. He was committed to an insane asylum a little later, finally died there...
...Latvian Folk Song...
...Allies will eliminate the eastern and western fronts, and usher in the final phase of the battle of Germany: the destruction of the German pockets. These would include the north German zone and Baltic coastal pockets; the Denmark-Norway pocket; five French ports and the Channel Islands; the Latvian pocket; Bohemia; a group of islands in the eastern Mediterranean; northern Italy, which is in fact a forefield of the great Alpine bastion; and finally the bastion itself...
Last week neither the Russians nor the Germans said anything about some thing happening or about to happen on the Warsaw-Vistula front. The Germans alone told of something happening in the Latvian pocket above Riga. Berlin said the Red Army had "sacrificed tens of thousands of men" to gain one penetration...
...days, Marshal Govorov's army group had killed 30,000 Germans, captured 15,000 more. When Govorov seized Ainazi, on the Latvian coast, the Germans lost their only rail-served port north of Riga. For two months they had stubbornly clung to an escape corridor at the bottom of the gulf-yet, when the Russians captured the inland rail town of Cesis, they found it had been reinforced by Elite Guard and aviation cadet units from Germany...