Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week it seemed fitting to the Union of Polish Patriots to name a division for Kosciuszko. The division was to fight beside "the heroic Red Army against the German invaders ... for the restoration of a free, independent and strong Poland." Union President Wanda Wasilewska, wife of a vice commissar for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Korneichuk, and an indefatigable writer, wrote to Premier Joseph Stalin: "The Poles in the U.S.S.R. are deeply convinced that consolidation of Polish-Soviet friendship [is] essential to Polish national interests." Rumbled Stalin in reply: "Thanks. . . . The Soviet Union will do everything possible to cement the friendship...
...Commissar (wisely): "That means you are letting living children die for the lack of food and bandages...
...long-simmering pot of Polish-Russian relations this week finally boiled over and spilled its lava-hot contents into the laps of Britain and the U.S. In Mos cow, Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov handed Polish Ambassador Tadeuz Romer a note: ". . . the Soviet Government has decided to sever relations with the Polish Government." Thus Polish-Russian amity ended with the first break between two members of the United Nations...
...World-Telegram the club's-eye view of the gang-up. The club revealed, for instance, that its waggish editorial member, Christopher Morley, had sent a telegram to Jane Benedict, president of the protesting Book and Magazine Union. Said Mr. Morley: "Assume principal objection is to chapter where Commissar Dlugash, Georgian renegade, makes his burlesque of Stalin." Miss Benedict wired back: "Other passages equally objectionable as one you mention." The curious thing was that The Fifth Seal contained no such episode...
...such U.S. figures as Raymond Gram Swing, Eleanor Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie also urged the Russians to release the two Poles. During his trip to Russia in September 1942, Willkie made his plea direct to Stalin, and four weeks ago cabled another plea to Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Last week Moscow gave its answer: Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich were already dead...