The story of the invention of the airplane and its first successful flights may be found in numerous encyclopedias, periodicals, and histories of aviation. In almost every account credit is apportioned among experimenters from several nations; while the Wright brothers may stand foremost to the average American, he realizes that the overall achievements of aviation have been attained only through the combined research of inventors in many countries. But during the past year and a half a new story has come out of the Soviet Union denying the usual credit given the Wright brothers and other non-Russian inventors and scientists. According to this story it was a Russian who invented and flew the first airplane and laid the foundation for later aerodynamics and all modern aircraft construction.

A government-drafted “Bill Concerning Regional Organs of Unified State Authority” was enacted into law by the Polish Parliament (Sejm Ustawodawczy—“Legislative Parliament“) on March 20, 1950. This legislation makes sweeping changes in Polish provincial and local government which have the effect of bringing the structure of government at those levels into nearly identical conformity with that of comparable levels in the Soviet Union. It also increases and consolidates the role of the Polish Council of State (Rada Państwa) as the dominant organ of the government of Poland.