Word: wanda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best-known member of the new committee: Wanda Wasilewska, best-selling Soviet novelist (The Rainbow) and wife of Alexander Korneichuk, until recently the Soviet Ukraine's Commissar of Foreign Affairs...
...author of the work has recently become familiar to careful U.S. news readers. She is Wanda Wasilewska, President of Moscow's Union of Polish Patriots. Since she is also the wife of the Soviet Ukraine's playwriting Commissar for Foreign Affairs (they married last year), she is counted upon to solve the Polish problem domestically...
...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 to freelance journalism, was elected (in the 1930s) to the Polish parliament as a candidate of the pro-Communist United Front...
Most of the guests ate buffet style. But in a small back room the Molotovs sat with Harriman and his daughter Kathy, radiant in a long Alice blue gown; Clark Kerr and Alexander Korneichuk and his wife, Wanda Wasilewska, in a black silk skirt topped by a smart white lame jacket. When asked about Polish relations, Korneichuk, the new Foreign Commissar for the Ukraine, spoke charmingly about plans for rebuilding Kiev...
Moderates in the Polish Cabinet were said to be making eyes at Commissar Korneichuk's wife Wanda. One fantastic possibility : the more moderate Poles in Exile might even find a way to invite Wanda into their government...