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...tried to draw him into intellectual discourse. Invariably J. Stalin's rough and ready ideas, questions and replies had to do with quick facts, not theory. His queries about Latvia, Statesman Munters was distressed to find, showed an all but complete lack of knowledge of the facts of Latvian history, since Soviet rule in Riga was overthrown...
...accidents were not lacking last week when the first skirmish of the neutrality war of 1937 was fought. Arrayed on one side was 1) Robert Cuse, naturalized Latvian of Jersey City who had forced the State Department, legally but against its will, to grant him a license to export $2,777,000 of second-hand airplanes and war materials to the Spanish Loyalists (TIME, Jan. n); 2) Captain José Santa María of the Spanish freighter Mar Cantabrico which lay at a Brooklyn pier loading Mr. Cuse's war goods; 3) Richard L. Dineley...
Until last week few citizens beside the like of Robert Cuse, a naturalized Latvian of Jersey City, N. J., realized that there was no U. S. law to prevent them from selling things to help the Spanish kill each other...
John Upley, Latvian blacksmith, tops the revolutionary pictures with one named Revolution in Bed, showing red, undressed small boys roughhousing in bed. A meticulous patriot, he also reproduces a plaque on a Massachusetts rock commemorating the visit in 1775 of John Hancock and Samuel Adams...
...around Shantung and into the Yellow Sea the Sheng An clanked steadily in the swell of a monsoon. Captain Vikhmann regaled Captain Taudien and his friends with vodka, smoked salmon, caviar. The Russian captain slept mostly with the first mate's Latvian wife but nobody seemed to mind, least of all First Mate Nicholas Azariev, hospitable and easy going. Finally one night when the Sheng An was 200 miles off Shanghai, the Germans and the Swiss went to work...