Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the Communist-dominated Polish Government, which had chewed over the U.S. demand that Poland hold a free election, came a tart reply: stay out of Poland's internal affairs. But the Poles knew that, however angrily they might react to U.S. demands for democratic government, the U.S. would keep on insisting on them-even though the fight might be lost...
...Pilgrims, painted by Polish miniaturist Arthur Szyk for a forthcoming edition of the Canterbury Tales (Heritage Press; $5), seemed a little tired and dusty in illustration, and strangely short in the legs (see cut). But Szyk's faintly medieval touch had caught some of the richness, if not much of the reality, of Chaucer's characters...
Warsaw spluttered over this "insult to Polish sovereignty" (but failed to protest the erection of Red Army roadblocks following anti-Russian disturbances near Bialystok, in sovereign Poland). The U.S. was especially invited to mind its own business. "And by own business," cracked a Pole in Washington, "we mean the Mississippi primaries...
...attend an all-Slav Congress in Manhattan next month: Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk and his wife, Colonel Wanda Wasilewska of the Red Army. He is one of Russia's leading dramatists (Front, Death of a Squadron, Truth) and a member of the Supreme Soviet; she is a former Polish (now Soviet) novelist (The Rainbow), head (during the war) of the Union of Polish Patriots in Russia...
...that the U.S.S.R. could help them sooner than the U.S. or Britain, with possibly a captured German factory or two, the Soviets had failed them sadly. In the first five months of 1946 Russia had sent only $93.58 worth of goods to Argentina, since then only one cargo of Polish coal. Uruguayans who had signed a trade treaty with the Soviets earlier this month were still looking for Russian goods...