Word: riga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contends that to have allowed the ship to pass through the canal would have been an act prejudicial to her neutral attitude. The Allies maintain that a preliminary treaty of peace ending war between Poland and Russia was ratified November 2, 1920, and the final treaty was signed at Riga, March 18, 1921, or three days before the incident. It appears that Germany had no right to detain the ship. Professor Walter Schücking (German) was appointed a judge ad interim in conformity with the statutes of the Court...
Christian Science. The religion of Mary Baker Eddy has spread to such distant points as Tientsin, Riga, Bulawayo. At the annual meeting of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, the clerk's report showed a gain of 79 societies, and 16 churches. There are now 2,061 branches of the " mother church." Christian Scientists publish no total membership, but it is known that their rate of gain is not as rapid as it was ten years...
...Ekaterina Kalinin, wife of Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin, peasant President of the Soviet Republic, is coming to the United States on a visit. It is understood that the United States Government has ac- corded her the necessary permission and has cabled the Consuls at Riga and Reval to vise her passports. Mme. Kalinin insists that no political capital will be made out of her visit. She is coming in response to the invitation of the American Committee for Relief of Russian Children to make a two months' tour of the United States, as representative of the Central Committee...
Latvia: A treaty is now under consideration giving Russia rights in the port of Riga and over the Latvian part of the River Dvina. This will facilitate Russian communications...
...demarcation line laid down in the armistice just concluded at Riga, which will presumably be the frontier adopted in the future peace treaty, it seems to me that the Poles have marked out a very reasonable and just frontier. It is true that this line is far east of the line recently proposed by Lord Curzon in the name of the British Government; but the Curzon line was never intended by anyone but the English to be a final boundary of Poland. It is true that the Riga line lies far east of the ethnographical limits of Poland as shown...