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...early as Sept. 4, the Polish government began evacuating Warsaw. The Bank of Poland sent its gold reserves south, to a haven near the Rumanian border. On Sept. 7 the Foreign Ministry told all diplomats that President Ignacy Moscicki, Premier Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski and their Cabinet ministers were leaving immediately by truck convoy for Naleczow, a resort 85 miles southeast of Warsaw. Finding no telephone lines working and almost no electricity, the ministers and diplomats trekked onward the next day to Krzemieniec, some 200 miles farther southeast. Throughout this flight, they were repeatedly attacked by German planes, for the Germans...
President of the Council of Ministers: Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski...
...Slawoj-Skladkowski: swa-voy-skwad...
...pitched in until soft hands were raw. Men went straight from shops and offices to dig by night. Musicians' guilds and actors' associations were given schedules for digging. Alexandra Pilsudska, widow of Poland's great Josef Pilsudski, broke ground. The Mayor of Warsaw dug, and so did Premier Slawoj Skladkowski, right in his own front yard (he directed workers to dig in the lawn, avoiding the flower beds...
Stepping nimbly just ahead of trouble for the second time on his European trip, Mr. Hoover three weeks ago chatted amiably with Poland's white-haired President Ignacy Moscicki, Army Dictator Smigly-Rydz and Premier Felician Slawoj Skladkowski. A week after his visit. Hosts Moscicki, Smigly-Rydz and Skladkowski made their little neighbor, Lithuania, knuckle under to their will with an ultimatum (TIME, March 28). By this time Mr. Hoover had journeyed through Finland, Estonia, had missed a luncheon date with Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf because fog delayed his Baltic steamer, and popped in on Copenhagen...