Word: wasilewska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, the Soviet Army's Colonel Wanda Wasilewska, was to have accompanied her husband, but remained in Kiev fighting a cold...
...Packing, in Moscow, to 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...
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...
Other facts about Novelist Wasilewska were few. Soviet sources said that she was born in Cracow (1905). An old friend of the family was Jozef Pilsudski, once the head of the Polish Socialist Party's underground organization, who later became Marshal of Poland. Her first novel, The Face of the Day, was 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...
Just at the moment when Russia needed a Pole to head its Polish counterpart of the Committee for German Liberation, Novelist Wasilewska turned up in Moscow after reportedly tramping hundreds of miles from Poland to join the Red Army, in which she is a colonel...