Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland emerged from the World War a runied nation," Count Potocki said. Its problem was to change a battlefield into a well-run and firmly established country. Taking the problem of education as an example of Polish progress, the Polish Ambassador told how illiteracy had been reduced from 40% to 18%, with educational facilities provided for everyone of school...
...Excellency, Count Jerszy Potocki, Polish Ambassador to the United States, addressed an audience of over 300 people yesterday afternoon at Emerson D on the ultimate causes of Poland's present condition...
This talk by Count Potocki, who is still the officially recognized ambassador from his non-existent homeland, was the first in a series of Polish culture programs, sponsored by the Slavic Circle...
During his first four years in Washington Count Jerszy Potocki has carried on with skill and ensuing popularity the routine duties of Polish ambassador. Rarely did his name appear in print; and then usually at official receptions. He lived the life of an ambassador in the spirit of the sportsman. His days belonged to the hounds, to tennis, to dancing. Wherever he mixed, his charm prepared the way for closer American friendship with Poland...
...highly aristocratic Potocki family, the ambassador has constantly worked for his country's freedom and later for its government. Originally aide de camp for the late Marshal Pilsudski, he served as minister in Ankara before coming to Washington. Even now, with the Moscicki faction out of power, he has held the confidence of the new government at Paris headed by General Sikorski...