Word: raczkiewicz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just out of hospital, after a severe attack of pleurisy, was President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, who sat pale and hollow-eyed watching the telegraph poles flash past. A political neutral, onetime President of the Senate in Warsaw, the ailing President leaves nearly everything to his active Premier, suave, resourceful General Wladyslaw Sikorski who chatted busily in the train last week with members of his cabinet, many of whom a few short weeks ago were fleeing impoverished across Poland to escape as best they could...
Newer and distinctly more practical for the impoverished Poles is the pleasant unhistoric chateau in which President Raczkiewicz will reside, surrounded by spreading vegetable gardens and big cow pastures. With any luck, the new Polish colony of 75 in Angers will be able to grow much of its own food. The gold reserve of the Bank of Poland was successfully smuggled out during the German invasion, gives the expatriate Government a fat nest egg of $80,000,000-but it is not supposed to be used for current expenses...
Last week, General Sosnokowski had both honor and reward. The President-in-exile, Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, successor to President Moscicki, became seriously ill, named General Sosnokowski as his successor "in case the post should become vacant before the conclusion of peace...
Meanwhile U. S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. called in Paris upon new expatriate Polish President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, this act confirming diplomatic recognition, which was also granted by France, Great Britain, Turkey, Sweden, Argentina, Mexico, the Vatican. Turks in Paris proudly recalled that during previous partitions of Poland, when the country appeared defunct for generations at a time, it was customary at the Sultan's Court for the Turkish majordomo, after announcing the names of all guests who had arrived, to shout "and unfortunately the Polish Ambassador is unavoidably absent...
...Moscicki, now a "private citizen," was permitted to leave Rumania for Italy this week. New President Raczkiewicz said his government will be one of "union and national defense," including minority representatives who for many years have had no place in Polish cabinets. He picked as his Premier the resourceful Pole who recently has been busy recruiting in France an army composed of Polish emigres, General Wladislaw Sikorski...