Word: lednicky
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fleeing from Poland to Italy and then through a war-torn France to Lisbon and the America-bound steamer "Excambion," Waclaw Lednicki, visiting professor of Slavonic literature has managed to keep one precarious step ahead of the Gestapo...
...Cracow, when the German invasion of his country began, Lednicki, who was then a professor at both the Universities of Cracow and Brussels, was stranded by the German victory and occupation. But diplomatic help from a friendly Belgian government, plus the friendship of an Italian princess for Ledniciki's sister, made possible his transit to France and eventually to this country...
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...