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...Ambassador Espil is one of Washington's handsomest three diplomats. Other two: Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope, 50; Polish Ambassador Count Jerzy Potocki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goodwill in the Pampas | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Offensive | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...public. For this Golden Jubilee concert the 4,000 had bought out the house long ago, at $15 for the best seats, the proceeds (some $22,000) going to the Musicians Emergency Fund. In the audience were New York's Mayor LaGuardia, Polish Ambassador Count Jerzy Potocki, ubiquitous Manhattanites like Novelist Fannie Hurst, scads of musicians, among them Conductor Artur Rodzinski, Pianist Leopold Godowsky, Violinist Albert Spalding. There were 20 oldsters, including kindly Dr. Walter Damrosch, who had heard the Hofmann debut concert, 50 years before. In a box sat Pianist Hofmann's daughter and granddaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jubilee | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...very advanced. Labor in Poland is entirely organized in unions", Count George Potocki, Polish Ambassador to the United States declared yesterday at a press conference in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, before lunching with President Conant and making a tour of the University in the afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLISH ENVOY FAVORS LABOR ORGANIZATION | 4/15/1937 | See Source »

When questioned concerning his country's relations with Germany and Russia, Potocki said "The country must remain independent, turning neither right or left. I don't think we have taken over anything from Germany or Russia in arranging our country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLISH ENVOY FAVORS LABOR ORGANIZATION | 4/15/1937 | See Source »

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