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...Died. Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern. 53, Polish composer who came to the U.S. in 1945 as consular attaché in New York City, defected from his country's Communist regime in 1948; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Died. Tadeusz Tomaszewski, 68, Polish jurist who in April 1949 succeeded Lieut. General Tadeusz Komorowski ("General Bor") as "Prime Minister" of the shadowy Polish government in exile*; of a heart attack; in London...
Polonaise (music by Frédéric Chopin & Bronislaw Kaper; lyrics by John Latouche; book by Gottfried Reinhardt & Anthony Veiller; produced by W. Horace Schmidlapp in association with Harry Bloomfield) is a sumptuously messy musical that involves a chronological partition of Poland. Eighteenth-Century Polish Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the freedom-loving volunteer of the American Revolution, supplies the plot; 19th-Century Polish Frédéric Chopin contributes most of the music; and 20th-century Polish Jan Kiepura (The Merry Widow) leads the singing...
...story begins with George Washington warmly saluting Tadeusz as a hero, shifts to Poland, where Kosciuszko unsuccessfully leads a people's uprising against the Tsarists, and ends with Washington warmly receiving Tadeusz as an exile...
...mentioned; this, ostensibly, was an internal affair between the Russians and the Poles. Among the Poles so honored were Deputy Prime Minister Jan Jankowski, and leaders of the principal parties (Socialist, Peasant, Nationalist, Christian Democrat) opposing Moscow's Warsaw regime. Another was General Leopold Okulicki, who had succeeded Tadeusz Bor, leader of the ill-fated Warsaw August uprising, as commander in chief of the London Government's underground army. Some of the 16 hardly deserved the title of "democratic leaders," but they had what amounted to a Russian pledge of safe conduct...