Word: moscicki
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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...
Died. Dr. Ignacy Moscicki, 76, onetime professor of electrochemistry and electrophysics, who in 1926 became President of Poland as a front man for the dictatorship of his longtime friend Marshal Pilsudski; in Versoix, Switzerland. After Pilsudski's death in 1935, Moscicki stayed on as President until the Nazi conquest in 1939 sent him into exile and political retirement...
...forestry expert and middle-of-the-road Progressive in politics, was accused of "standing on his head, talking upside down, smearing crocodile tears over his dirty face." If Premier Cajander did not watch out, Pravda hinted, he would find himself in the company of onetime President Ignacy Moscicki and onetime Foreign Minister Josef Beck of 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...
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...