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Died. Alexander Korneichuk, 66, playwright-politician who became one of the Soviet Union's most prominent literary loyalists; in Kiev. Because of his skill in blending party line with plot, Korneichuk won five Stalin Prizes and a number of political appointments during the 1930s and '40s. After Stalin's death, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev and in 1955 attacked the fallen secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, in a play called Wings. It marked the start of Khrushchev's public assault on Stalinism. Korneichuk also survived Khrushchev's ouster, serving the present regime...
...first hint was a press announcement that Gregory Ivanovich Petrovsky was to get a special award. Ukrainians recognized the name of an almost forgotten Ukrainian Bolshevik who disappeared in the 1938 purge after being charged with "bourgeois nationalism." A few weeks later, Soviet Playwright Alexander Korneichuk, wartime foreign minister of the Ukraine dismissed in 1944 on the same charge, was reinstated as Vice Premier. Last week the switch went the full 180 degrees: the Ukraine's Communist Party boss, Leonid Melnikov, a Moscow bureaucrat, was fired for "profound mistakes in the selection of personnel and the carrying...
...paid little heed to the congress. The Soviet Government and satellites (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia) thought it so important that representatives from abroad included (among others): Alexander Korneichuk,** Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukraine; General Vassily Kozlov, World War II guerrilla hero; Lieut. General Alexander Gundorov, head of the All-Slav Congress in Moscow; General Karol Swierczewski, Poland's Vice Minister of National Defense; Tzola Dragoïtcheva, Secretary of Bulgaria's Fatherland Front and No. 1 hatchet woman of Bulgarian Communism. The Yugoslav delegates, who attempted to attend the congress as private citizens, were barred...
...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...
This week TIME Correspondent John Hersey cabled that Mr. Perkins' Mission was "the strangest literary coincidence of the war. Korneichuk wrote the play last spring. Eric Johnston and William L. White visited Russia during the summer. In the play there are no similarities to Johnston and White either in physical appearance of the actors or in characteristics as revealed by the lines. But to Muscovites, 'Mr. Perkins' is Eric Johnston and 'Mr. Hemp' is Bill White. And that is how it will be, as long as the play runs...