Word: paderewskis
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...early as 1910 Pianist Paderewski, then at the early zenith of his musical career, proclaimed : "The vision of a strong and independent Poland has always been the lodestar of my existence. Its realization is still the great aim of my life...
...Warsaw everyone knows that Poland will go to war the moment any nation menaces her corridor to the sea. The greatest living Pole restated this axiom of his nation in Manhattan last week. Not for 13 years has Ignace Jan Paderewski been Premier of Poland. He and Poland's present Dictator, eccentric Marshal Pilsudski, are on barely civil terms. But every Pole backed Pianist Paderewski when he exclaimed...
That Poland might lose such a war, Pianist Paderewski readily admitted...
Directly the War broke, M. Paderewski subordinated all private interests to the struggle for Polish liberty, raised money for the cause with his fingers, finally brought President Wilson to declare (Jan. 22, 1917) for "a united, independent and autonomous Poland...
Thereafter M. Paderewski pushed the organization of Polish military training camps in the U. S. and Canada, raised a picked Polish National Guard of 22,000 Polish volunteers. With the sudden collapse of Germany he rushed to Warsaw, became Premier and "made" Poland in the sense that he obtained her recognition as a nation by all the Great Powers...