Word: poland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends of President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland have a tactful way of saying that "Pictures really don't do justice to his appearance." Not so speak and write the President's enemies. Therefore the Government announced last week its drafting of a bill providing that "attacks on the President's personal appearance shall be punishable by imprisonment up to five years...
...warning to Roman Catholics that Pope Pius XI was a man, no god. They must not, as the ignorant among them are prone to do in their mystic exaltations during Holy Week, imagine Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti other than a onetime boy in Milan, onetime Papal Nuncio to Poland, onetime cardinal, now the 260th successor to St. Peter as head of their Church. They are no Egyptians to deify a pharaoh, no Romans to worship an emperor...
Thus, at Melbourne, Australia, last week, Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist, onetime (1919) Premier and still national hero of Poland, was instructed in British etiquet by a natty emissary of his Excellency Baron Stonehaven of Ury, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth of Australia. For an instant M. Paderewski's keen eyes snapped, then he bowed: "Say to your Governor, Monsieur, that Paderewski will accord him the honor which he deserves...
Observers recalled that Mme. Moscicki, wife of President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland, is Chairman of the Executive Board of the Polish Y. M. C. A., an organization built up since the War with funds contributed from the U. S., though there are today only five U. S. citizens employed by the Polish...
Most adept was the papal policy which suggested that a decree of the late Pope Benedict XV be used as the authority for Cardinal Kakowski's warning. By that means the present Pope Pius XI, once Papal Nuncio to Poland, will tend to escape criticism among Poles. Poles...