Word: latvians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...donation of $23 collected by Latvian D.P.s as an anti-Communist fund and sent to Indiana's Governor Henry Schricker was promptly returned. Give it to the churches, said the governor. Christianity, not money, is the proper weapon to fight Communism...
...seven displaced persons now in College share many things in common, and have many differences. They are all from the same general sector of the world--three are Yugoslavian, two are Polish, one is Czechoslovakian, and one Latvian. During the war most of them were old enough to fight the German invasions of their home countries--but in each man, fear of Russia soon grew even greater than hatred of the Nazis...
...elementary rules of international law." On the day of the Privateer's flight, a "four-engined military plane of the B-29 type" (the Privateer is actually a single-tailed Navy version of the old B-24 Liberator) had flown 13 miles across the Soviet coastline near the Latvian harbor of Liepaja, said Vishinsky. Soviet fighters had swept up in challenge and ordered the U.S. plane to land at a Russian airport. Instead it refused and opened fire...
...symphonic poem, On the Other Side of the Araks, was written to celebrate the struggle of the people of southern Azerbaijan "with the Anglo-American imperialists in Iran." A Sixth Symphony, by one Janis Ivanov, had been inspired by the "difficult past and bright present" of the Latvian people (no longer harassed by political independence since their 1940 incorporation in the Soviet Union...
...lower rank since he had not been appointed by a government), was given the full and formal State Department protocol treatment in Washington. He was warmly received by Secretary of State Acheson. For six minutes, lounging in a leather armchair, Feldmans told of the plight of 80,000 Latvian D.P.s who would like to come to the U.S. The State Department put Feldmans' name on the official list of diplomats. Mr. Feldmans did not call on the President, but it was announced unofficially that Mrs. Truman would entertain him at tea at Blair House, along with other freshman members...