Word: sikorskys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospital, after a severe attack of pleurisy, was President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, who sat pale and hollow-eyed watching the telegraph poles flash past. A political neutral, onetime President of the Senate in Warsaw, the ailing President leaves nearly everything to his active Premier, suave, resourceful General Wladyslaw Sikorski who chatted busily in the train last week with members of his cabinet, many of whom a few short weeks ago were fleeing impoverished across Poland to escape as best they could...
...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...
About 15,000 Poles were recruited in France to fight on the Western Front by energetic General Wladyslaw Sikorski before he was named Premier last fortnight of the expatriate Government of Poland set up in Paris (TIME, Oct. 9).* He has enough Polish officers for 30 divisions, but no uniforms; these are being hastily made up. Last week General Sikorski, after instructing his Finance Minister Colonel Adam Koc to try to get from Britain and France part of some $46,000,000 which they agreed to loan to Poland just as the German invasion began, called on French Premier Edouard...
...Russia's stab in the back we could have held the Germans. ... I am proud of the way in which my country behaved in the hours of danger." This week the British Foreign Office is to give a State banquet for August Zaleski, Foreign Minister in the Sikorski Cabinet...
...said his government will be one of "union and national defense," including minority representatives who for many years have had no place in Polish cabinets. He picked as his Premier the resourceful Pole who recently has been busy recruiting in France an army composed of Polish emigres, General Wladislaw Sikorski...