Ksawery Pruszyński

Franciszek Ksawery Pruszyński (4 December 1907 – 13 June 1950) was a Polish journalist, publicist, writer and diplomat.

He joined the editorial board of the newspaper Czas from Kraków, first as a proofreader, then surveying the foreign press, and from 1930, author of a series of reports from Hungary.

After this experience he wrote the book Russian Year: A Notebook of an Amateur Diplomat, published in May 1944 in New York.

The New York Times wrote that Pruszyński "possesses a knowledge of Russian language, culture and history shared by very few recent foreign visitors to the Soviet Union.

Add to this a keenly observant eye, a style that is always readable and sometimes brilliant, and one has the ingredients of one of the most informative books that have appeared on the Soviet Union at war.".

[7][8] During 1947-1948 he was the chairman of Subcommittee 1 and of the Working Group on Boundaries (as part of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question).

He died in unexplained circumstances on 13 June 1950 in a car accident in Rhynern, south of Hamm, about 50 miles northeast of Düsseldorf.