Word: potocki
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland Earle stayed at Ambassador Biddle's estate, which was rented from the Polish Ambassador in America, Count Potocki. Just two weeks after he left the estate the Russians entered this district. All the large estates were divided up and the land given to the peasants. Earle was in lots of air-raids. "My most scary moment," he says, "was the night we spent on the 'Washington' at Le Havre before sailing. We noticed that afternoon that about 100 yards from where the boat was lying on the dock, there was a small island with about 100 large oil tanks...
...Washington, last week, Count Jerzy Potocki was still the accepted Ambassador of his refugee Government, was still credited with being the handsomest, and one of the ablest members of Washington's diplomatic corps...
...Potocki: pot-otski...
...Ambassador Espil is one of Washington's handsomest three diplomats. Other two: Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope, 50; Polish Ambassador Count Jerzy Potocki...
Warsaw struck back, arrested the Nazi leader of Polish Germans, disbanded pro-Nazi German organizations. And although Germany swung troops into Slovakia, P'o-land's Ambassador to the U. S., Count Jerzy Potocki, summed up Polish feeling in Washington: "Just as surely as you see me sitting here there will be a general war if Germany attempts to change the status of Danzig." Member of one of the few great Polish landowning families that fought for Polish independence, blond, fox-hunting Count Potocki had been so completely tagged as Washington's leading diplomatic socialite that...