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...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...
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...
...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...
...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...