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...would like you to tell me how the painting with the churches of Riga, Latvia found its way into President Eisenhower's office. CHRISTIAN A. KRAUSE Pittsburgh
Cruel Nouns. Introducing this first English translation of one of Herzen's most famous works, From the Other Shore, a brilliant journalistic-philosophical assessment of Europe after the 1848 revolutions, Riga-born Oxford Don Isaiah Berlin has underlined Herzen's teaching with some wry modern hindsight. As an observer of 19th century Europe, "only Marx and Tocqueville are comparable to him," says Berlin. "For Herzen," he says, the " 'collective nouns' capable of stirring strong emotion, like Nationality, or Democracy, or Equality, or Humanity, or Progress . . . [were] modern versions of ancient religions which demanded human sacrifice...
...keep the journalistic or historical record straight on your Feb. 20 statement that the Chicago Tribune "has never based one of its own men in Moscow," these are the facts: In August 1921, while the Hoover-Litvinoff "treaty" was being concluded in Riga (which, incidentally, stipulated that American reporters were to be allowed in Soviet Russia), Floyd Gibbons, head of the Tribune foreign-news service, went to Moscow. He scooped the world on the Russian famine. Within a few weeks he assigned me as permanent Tribune correspondent in Moscow. I stayed in Russia about a year and a half...
Disagreement in Moscow. In 32 years of diplomacy at home and abroad, Henderson's career has been consistently distinguished. In Riga, Latvia, long before the U.S. recognized Soviet Russia, he found a convenient listening post for tapping the Communist line (he also married a local girl). For years thereafter, he pursued the moves of international Communism across Central Europe with the astuteness of an Eric Ambler detective...
...Russian boss in Latvia during the 1940-41 occupation was Andrei Vishinsky, now the Soviet Union's chief U.N. delegate, whom one Latvian witness last week branded as "the greatest murderer in the world." After the Russians retreated in 1941, Latvians in the capital city of Riga set up a commission, headed by a jurist named Atis Grantskalns, to document Vishinsky & Co.'s murders. Last week Grantskalns told of finding 979 bodies of Latvians killed by the Communist conquerors. The victims, he said, included intellectuals, teachers, army officers, government officials-"the leaders of our communities...