Word: rutkowsky
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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...
...Government's President Boleslaw Bierut, who according to the Polish Telegraph Agency (the official organ of the London Poles), had been in the Soviet service for some 20 years. Under the name Bienkowski he had been head of the Polish section of the Communist International. Under the name Rutkowski he had been head of the Polish section of the GPU (secret police). The name Bierut was a combination of the first syllable of these two noms de guerre. Bierut's real name is Krasnodebski...
...Seventh day. . . . Ski [Chief Petty Officer J. J. Rutkowski] gets very sick, heaves until he is weak, has chills, stomachaches and we cannot keep him warm. . . . He has us pretty worried. . . . The put-put goes out and the battery is very low. . . . Cannot key the transmitter, no plate voltage...