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...Lett-in-the-street was that no alcoholic beverages could be sold for two days. Suspicious correspondents, not at all satisfied with the obvious instigators of Latvia's dictatorship, spotted the shadow of Adolf Hitler behind President Kviesis and his officers. Beyond the Polish Corridor and East Prussia, the Eastern shore of the Baltic is edged with little countries born of the War. Going north, they are Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and vast lake-riddled Finland. All of them were Russian provinces before 1917 and in all of them still goes on a constant struggle of German v. Russian influence...
...Eyck painted for him in the 15th Century and Jan van Eyck, the painter's brother, finished. The brilliant, realistic twelve-paneled Adoration of the Lamb remained Ghent's and Belgium's pride, lost only partial glory in 1816 when two panels were sold to Prussia. By the Treaty of Versailles these two were returned to Ghent. But last week there were only eleven in all. Gone was the 54-by-22-inch The Virtuous Judges (red and blue-cloaked riders backgrounded by crags and castles) and the grey John the Baptist painted on the other side...
...force, the priests herded their children back toward the railway station. At the station Hitler's Youths amused themselves by dashing among the children and snatching the rest of their banners. Bishop Bares of the Catholic Diocese of Berlin and Brandenburg sent smoking protests to Chancellor Hitler, to Prussia's Premier Hermann Göring and to Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick...
Many interesting medals received by President Eliot after his resignation in 1909 may also be seen. He was given the Order of the Crown of Italy by the King of Italy, the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan, the Order of the Crown of Prussia by the German Emperor, the Order of St. Sava by the King of the Serbs, Creates, and Slovenes, the Legion of Honor by the President of the French Republic, and the Order of the Crown by the King of the Belgians...
...18th Century, when the French Constituent Assembly attacked the same problem, it split the old French provinces into new arbitrary departments, named for rivers and mountains. Last week Adolf Hitler hinted that the old borders of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, were to be broken down. Rather than imitate France, he suggested that the new German states might be bounded by the territories of the Early Germanic tribes. Besides Goths, Frisians and Swabians, one of the most important German tribes were the Burgundians. A Nazi Burgundy seemed unlikely...