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Died. Dr. Ignacy Moscicki, 76, onetime professor of electrochemistry and electrophysics, who in 1926 became President of Poland as a front man for the dictatorship of his longtime friend Marshal Pilsudski; in Versoix, Switzerland. After Pilsudski's death in 1935, Moscicki stayed on as President until the Nazi conquest in 1939 sent him into exile and political retirement...
Died. Wincenty Witos, 71, leader of Poland's Peasant Party, three-time Premier, member of the present Polish Government; of pneumonia, culmination of a long illness begun in a German concentration camp; in Cracow. Wise, independent self-educated Wincenty Witos teamed with Marshal Josef Pilsudski and Ignace Paderewski to form the Polish Republic after World War I; later forced into exile by the reactionary Pilsudski, he became the martyr of Polish peasantry, returned to his people during the 1939 crisis, became their best-loved, most trusted statesman...
...highest-paid Powers model ("The Chesterfield Girl"), now Kyser's sweet-voiced vocalist; both for the first time; in Las Vegas, Nev. Died. Josef Beck, 49, Poland's unpopular, unscrupulous, prewar Foreign Minister; after long illness; near Bucharest. A protÉgÉ of Dictator-Marshal Josef Pilsudski, who made him Foreign Minister (at 38, the youngest in Europe), "Little Joe" soon made a reputation for himself as one of Europe's most ruthless diplomats. Pro-German and anti-Russian, he smoothly signed ten-year nonaggression pacts with both countries, smartly propagandized Poland as the balance...
Were the stubborn Poles bowing at last to stubborn Russia? In London, the Polish National Council hotly debated the position of Russophobe General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Commander in Chief of the Polish armies and designated successor to exiled President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz. An ultranationalist of the old Pilsudski military clique, General Sosnkowski had long been anathema to Moscow, more potent than moderate Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk...
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...