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Although numerous U. S. correspondents sent out signed despatches quoting the Metropolitan, described minutely the whole scene, still next day in Riga, Latvia, the local Orthodox Archbishop announced the impossibility that Sergius could have uttered his words, and the Morning Post told Londoners that Sergius is a "tool" of the Soviets. Little impression was made in either Britain or the U. S. by the publication cf a statement signed by Chief Rabbi Henachem Gluskin of Minsk, though no one accused him of being a "tool," for all Jewry knows his stalwart saintliness...
...Latvia a Jew named Kirstein was recently sentenced to death for murder. Against a horrible death he preferred a horrible living; he chose to be infected with leprosy and be used as an experiment at the Riga Leprosy Research Institute. Last week he was an inmate there. If cured, he will be a free...
Married. Sonia Alexandra Frey, daughter of John Alexander Frey, Director of the Baptist Theological Seminary of Riga, Latvia, to Niven Busch, Jr., onetime associate editor of TIME, in Manhattan...
...fitting that the Saengerfest should be directed by Bruno Walter, music master of present-day Teutons. His baton had many times hushed audiences of the Staatsoper, once the Royal Opera of Berlin. Even at 17, he had directed the opera at Cologne. Munich, Vienna, Riga had acclaimed him. Later, when anti-Semitic feeling grew bitter in Europe, he sailed for the U. S. Some say he is first in the hearts of German-Americans...
...last week a political crisis. Dictator Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin was again openly criticized for the first time since last fall by his incessant rival, Lev Davidovitch Trotzky. Amid the excitement, Sir Robert Hodgson, Chief of the British Mission at Moscow, quietly departed for London with his staff on the Riga Express...