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...elected to the committee along with his alternate, W. Lednicki, professor at the University of California, at a meeting in Belgrade last September. The members were chosen from the 200 at the Belgrade meeting on the basis of nationality...
...Roman Jakobson, Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature and a Russian emigre, would be making his first visit to his native land in 37 years, if he attends the meeting of the interim committee of the International Conference for Slavic Philology. With his alternate, Professor W. Lednicki of the University of California, Jakobson was elected to the planning body at a Belgrade meeting last September...
After escaping the grasping tentacles of the Gestapo in Poland, Lednicki became an aid of the Polish government in exile at Anjou in France and was in Paris when Marshal Potain announced the Armistice in June 1940. Securing a transit visa from a kind French official he journeyed to Lisbon, where he received an American visa and came here to assume a post offered him by Harvard...
...considering the Polish armed defeat, Lednicki stressed that German military and air superiority was insurmountable, despite even the most desperate Polish efforts. He claimed that 70 German divisions, with the support of 12 armored units, took six weeks to subdue 31 Polish divisions, backed by only two Panzer outfits. He added that the fifth-column efforts of the sizable German minority hampered Polish offensive attempts...
...present time, free Poles the world over are active in the fight against Hitlerism," Professor Lednicki stated. "The garrison of Tobruch is Polish, as is R. A. F. squadron 303, the group of aces that has shot down the greatest number of Axis planes in the entire Allied air forces...