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...years Li Lisan was filed away, like Josip Broz (now Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito) and Boleslaw Rutkowski (now Poland's President Bierut), in Moscow's human archives. But last week Li was back in the inner circles of the Yenan Government. Some thought they recognized his dynamic hand already in reports that Yenan was considering superseding the present loose union of local Communist governments with a strong central regime...
Polish President Boleslaw Bierut led his seven-man delegation (including no representative of Stanislaw Mikolajczk's Peasant Party) from their plane in Moscow, stepped to a microphone to say, "Long live the indestructible friendship of the Polish and Soviet peoples...
...hard-dying rumor, but no fact. Stokowski was born in London, to a Polish father, Josef Boleslaw Kopernicus Stokowski, and an Irish mother...
Until a year ago its leader was President Boleslaw Bierut, 54, a veteran Communist, who now, because of his official position, adopts an air of aloofness towards rough-&-tumble politics. Currently, the party's most brilliant performer is Industry Minister Hilary Mine (rhymes with quince), 41, a blond, bespectacled intellectual who spent the war years teaching economics in Russia. He drafted the drastic Nationalization Bill. His avowed objective is "the liquidation of feudalism and also capitalism in Poland." The son of a wealthy Warsaw businessman, Mine was brought up in comparative luxury. Old Madame Mine used to brag about...
...Ambassador W. Averell Harriman gave a cocktail party last week at his Moscow residence, Spasso House. His guests: Poland's exiled ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, who had just come from London; Poland's Communist President Boleslaw Bierut, who had just come from Warsaw; and a swatch of other Poles who did not like each other. Drinks flowed. The party was a big success. Five days later the Polish factions surprised a world accustomed to Polish fractiousness: they had reached agreement and formed a government acceptable to all of the Big Three...