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...Excellency, Count Jerszy Potocki, Polish Ambassador to the United States, addressed an audience of over 300 people yesterday afternoon at Emerson D on the ultimate causes of Poland's present condition...
...Poland is to rise again, Potocki knows that his work has just begun. Physically destroyed, Poland still flourishes in the hearts of its people. If the Allies should win, will Poland be reconstructed as in 1918? And if the Allies should lose . . . if . . . if . . . ? The Vagabond knows that the answers are far away, but he will get some clue to them from Count Potocki today at 4 o'clock in Emerson...
During his first four years in Washington Count Jerszy Potocki has carried on with skill and ensuing popularity the routine duties of Polish ambassador. Rarely did his name appear in print; and then usually at official receptions. He lived the life of an ambassador in the spirit of the sportsman. His days belonged to the hounds, to tennis, to dancing. Wherever he mixed, his charm prepared the way for closer American friendship with Poland...
...then--September, 1939. War brought a new way of life. As the German advance careened through Poland, first silence, then tension and despair gripped the embassy at Washington. The name of Potocki took on a new meaning, not just spokesman for Poland, but the leader, the unifying strength of thousands of Poles in America who listened eagerly to his every message of hope. On September 19th, as Warsaw held out for the last straw of independence, Potocki was already looking to the future: "If the enemy shall succeed in Poland, the time will come, as it has so often...
...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...