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Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillant (Joanna Graudan, pianist, with the Minneapolis Symphony conducted by Dmitri Mitropoulos; Columbia; 3 sides; $2.50). Pre-Victorian showpiece, faded but not without charm, brilliantly played by the Latvian-born wife of the orchestra's first cellist. On the fourth side, an elegant minuet from Lully's The Temple of Peace...
...nigsberg, East Prussia, a Latvian "Government in Exile" declared its independence of Russia...
...world's biggest bank. Chase National of N. Y., last week was embarked upon an attempt to solve U. S. bankers' most annoying headache: who controls the U. S. funds of Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Belgian, Latvian and other Russian and Nazi victims? The assets of ten such countries have already been "frozen" here by U. S. decree (estimated total on ice: around $3,000,000,000) and can be transferred only by license from the U. S. Treasury, via the Federal Reserve Bank. But even the Treasury's say-so does not free a U. S. private...
...much Sir Stafford who failed as the British Government in London, which understands Russian sensitivity less than its Ambassador. While Sir Stafford was earnestly assuring Moscow of Britain's friendship, the Government froze the Baltic States' bank balances in England, refused to surrender Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian ships in British ports, and last month requisitioned several of those ships. All this served to deepen Joseph Stalin's Oriental distrust of the Occidental Britons...
...Berlin, Lithuanian Minister Kazys Skirpa immediately made himself Candidate No. 1 for Soviet justice. After Russian officials in a big black car had taken over the Estonian and Latvian Legations, they called on Minister Skirpa. The Minister sent word that he was out. The Russians then demanded of First Secretary Stasys Kuzminskas that he surrender the Legation. Secretary Kuzminskas asked for their authority...