assumed by a candidate acceptable to both Sanacja and opposition circles, General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, whose whereabouts were unknown in September 1939. Finally, after Wieniawa's resignation, a compromise candidate, Władysław Raczkiewicz, was chosen. Death Once in the United States, Wieniawa-Długoszowski settled in New York City. Unable to get any position in the Polish Army from Władysław Sikorski since he was part of the Piłsudskiist Sanation Movement, which had ruled Poland from 1926 to 1939, which [Sikorski had opposed (Sikorski organised a coup against Wieniawa in 1939). He moved to Detroit, where he was appointed editor-in-chief of Frank Januszewski's Dziennik Polski (Detroit). Finally, on 18 April 1942, Sikorski appointed Wieniawa minister plenipotentiary to the governments of Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Haiti, based in Havana. On 20 June 1942 the National Committee of Americans of Polish Extraction (KNAPP) was founded in New York, with Wieniawa listed as a founder. KNAPP was strongly for retaining Poland's eastern territories, was critical of Sikorsk, and was entirely distrustful of Stalin. Wieniawa, after moving back to New York, caught between these two opposing forces, committed suicide on 1 July 1942. Some sources say he committed suicide by leaping from an upper story of his New York city residence (3 Riverside Drive), but the exact details of his death are debated among historians. He left a suicide note. One month later, on 14 August 1942, the Jewish ghetto in his home village of Bobowa was liquidated; about 700 inhabitants were killed in a mass execution in the Garbacz Forest. Wieniawa's remains were brought back to Kraków for reburial in the Rakowicki Cemetery, on 27 September 1990, where he now lies with his fallen comrades from the World War I Polish Legions. Honours and awards Polish Order of the White Eagle Order of St. Stanislaus Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari, Virtuti Militari class V Silver (November 1921) Cross of Valour, four times Cross of Independence with Swords (May 1931) Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (March 1934), Commander's Cross with star (November 1938) (previously awarded the Officer's Cross) Gold Cross of Merit Decades of Independence Medal Regained Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature Academic merit for literature, (November 1936). Foreign Imperial Order of Leopold (Austria) Military Order of Max Joseph (Bavaria) Officer (1921) then Commander (1937) of the Legion of Honour (France) Military Order of Maria Theresa (Austro-Hungarian Empire) Order of Saints Cyril and