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Before the War, the city of Riga was the second most important port on the Baltic. With the re-establishment of Poland and the creation of Latvia, Riga shriveled. Poles built a port of their own at Gdynia. Foreign steamers that used to call at Riga passed it by. Latvian authorities made one attempt to resurrect their capital by advertising the city as a summer resort. Knowing people recognize the Gulf of Riga as an ideal spot for small boat racing in summer. Its waters are quite warm enough for comfortable swimming, but the average tourist, looking at Riga...
Next move was to make Riga a Baltic Reno. Gambling casinos opened. Latvian divorce laws are enticing: with residence established, divorce may be obtained upon proof of three years' separation. Last week the Baltic Reno appeared in U. S. headlines. In Riga, striving once more to divorce Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, was Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post. Mrs. McLean, having stopped one Mexican divorce by a court order, was working desperately to halt this by another. She obtained a temporary injunction from Justice Wheat of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. With Publisher McLean...
...Minister to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; to be Minister to Denmark, succeeding the late Ralph Harman Booth. Robert P. Skinner, Minister to Greece, will succeed Mr. Coleman at Riga...
...only country affected by her economic plight last week. All banks closed in Hungary for three days. In Vienna the great Mercurbank, largely owned by Berlin's closed Danat, shut its doors and begged for a six-month moratorium. Other banks suspended in Danzig and in Riga. The fire was coming dangerously close to France's allies in Central Europe: Poland, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, who must be saved to preserve French military supremacy. Had France overstepped the mark by demanding, as the price of a further loan, political concessions from Germany which no German Cabinet could accept and remain...
Divorced. Max Reinhardt, German producer (The Miracle, Jedermann) ; from Elise Heims, actress; in Riga, Latvia. Frau Reinhardt, who had refused for twelve years to permit him to divorce her, appealed the decision on the grounds that though he owns property in Riga he is no Latvian but a Czecho-Slovakian citizen...