Word: wanda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British dilem ma did not hinder the Russians or alter their developing plan. Alexander Korneichuk, new Foreign Commissar of the Soviet Ukraine (TIME, Feb. 14), may handle the Polish-border question. His wife, Wanda Wasilewska, is head of the Union of Polish Patriots. Moscow radio an nounced that her first move had been to form the Polish national council, include in it members of the "Polish Peasant, Socialist and Workers" parties and "other democratic national groupings." The Poles in London were in grave danger of being dispossessed by connubial diplomacy...
...Supreme Soviet and, for the past year, a Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs under Molotov, resigned his post the day after his chief announced the new autonomy. Two days later Kiev announced appointment of a Commissar of Foreign Affairs for the Ukraine: Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk, husband of Polish-born Wanda Wasilewska (the leader of the Union of Polish Patriots), firm believer in close harmony among Ukrainians, Czechs and Poles to block revival of Prussian militarism, well-trained disciple of the Molotov method...
...Moscow last week it seemed fitting to the Union of Polish Patriots to name a division for Kosciuszko. The division was to fight beside "the heroic Red Army against the German invaders ... for the restoration of a free, independent and strong Poland." Union President Wanda Wasilewska, wife of a vice commissar for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Korneichuk, and an indefatigable writer, wrote to Premier Joseph Stalin: "The Poles in the U.S.S.R. are deeply convinced that consolidation of Polish-Soviet friendship [is] essential to Polish national interests." Rumbled Stalin in reply: "Thanks. . . . The Soviet Union will do everything possible to cement...
...long-lost concertos have had a way of turning up in unexpected places. Recently Toronto musical circles have been celebrating the discovery of a rich cache of 14 C. P. E. concertos. To do them justice, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. brought world-famed Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska to Toronto and set her to work playing the concertos, one by one, in a series of Sunday evening broadcasts...
...been able to discover, are new to the musical world. Since all the scripts are in the same handwriting, and all bear C. P. E.'s name, there is no good reason to suppose that all are not authentic C. P. E. They sound like it when Wanda Landowska plays them...