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According to museum data sheets, the painting was brought to America by a Polish prince fleeing in advance of the Nazi invasion. Yet no prior records of this painting exist, said Jordan. He pointed out that, while the Nazis invaded Poland in September 1939, the letter of validation provided by Valentiner is dated June 1939. This means the painting was in America prior to the alleged escape...
...slipping across the Mediterranean into Italy. " Libya can tighten its borders," says a European ambassador in Tripoli. "But the Libyans think this is our problem." Friendship still has its limits. - By Vivienne Walt Close Call POLAND Prime Minister Marek Belka's government narrowly survived a parliamentary vote of confidence just hours after Belka announced the country would begin reducing its 2,500-strong troop contingent in Iraq early next year. "We will not remain in Iraq an hour longer than is sensible [or] necessary to achieve our mission's goal," he said. More than 70% of Poles oppose their country...
...diplomatic missions around the world on heightened security alert after a bomb exploded outside its embassy in Paris , injuring 10 people. The world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia has suffered a number of recent attacks on its soil by Islamic militants linked to al-Qaeda. Exit Strategy POLAND Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said that Warsaw would set a date for the withdrawal of its 2,500 troops in Iraq after an Oct. 15 parliamentary vote of confidence in the government. Szmajdzinski earlier surprised coalition allies by announcing that a pullout would take place by the end of 2005. Surveys show...
...STUNNED TO SEE THE TERM "POL-ish labor camp" in the Milestone on the death of Navajo code talker Frank Sanache [Sept. 6]. The Nazis organized and ran the German concentration, labor and POW camps of World War II [including the one in what is now Poland where Sanache was imprisoned]. We need to preserve the truth about atrocities committed by the Nazis instead of creating harmful stereotypes that involve Poland...
PRZEMYSLAW GRUDZINSKI AMBASSADOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND TO THE U.S. Washington...