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Last week Ambassador Jozef Winiewicz presented his credentials to President Truman. President Truman replied with a brisk dressing-down: "It is a cause of deep concern to me and to the American people that the Polish Provisional Government has failed to fulfill that pledge [to hold free elections]." The Polish-American press chimed in. Crowed Chicago's Dziennik Zwiazkowy: TRUMAN
...feared, he was too late. The 24 cases there had also been handed over. Dr. Zaleski sped to the bank. Ah, the cases were there. But the bank bluntly refused to give them up except jointly to the two men who had deposited them, Dr. Zaleski and his colleague, Jozef Polkowski, a London Pole...
Other facts about Novelist Wasilewska were few. Soviet sources said that she was born in Cracow (1905). An old friend of the family was Jozef Pilsudski, once the head of the Polish Socialist Party's underground organization, who later became Marshal of Poland. Her first novel, The Face of the Day, was based on her youthful experiences in Poland's rural squalor. Nevertheless, she managed to go through Cracow University, where she took a degree in philosophy. She planned to teach, but unsympathetic Polish educators told her: "We want teachers, not somebody to make propaganda." So Wanda turned...
...Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan bought The End of the Hunt-although it denies that the Christmas card had anything to do with it. Some other Group artists who, by accident or design, have done cardworthy snowscapes, religious or convivial scenes: Emil Ganso, Doris Rosenthal, Lauren Ford, Henry Varnum Poor, Jozef Bakos, N. C. Wyeth, Aaron Bohrod, Waldo Peirce, Georges Schreiber...
...rubber-stamp totalitarian fashion, the Parliament of Nazi-dominated Republic of Slovakia last week unanimously elected Premier Jozef Tiso, a Catholic priest, to become President of Slovakia. Dr. Tiso was kicked upstairs to a post of greater dignity, less power, because the Nazis have begun to consider him "untrustworthy." Simultaneously Minister of Interior Béla Tuka was promoted Premier amid rumors that he will soon be replaced by an even more pliant Nazi tool...