Word: sikorskys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polish stock although his birthplace was Moscow, Leduicki attended the University of Moscow and then assumed Polish citizenship in 1918. He served in the Polish army during the campaigns of 1918-19 and 1921 against the Soviets, and was decorated for bravery upon the personal recommendation of General Sikorski, now Polish Prime Minister...
...room of the Polish Embassy, 17 prominent Poles met as a newly formed National Council of the Polish Government-in-Exile. Council members sat in two rows facing each other, just as in the 16th-Century Polish Senate. President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz appeared in formal morning dress. Premier General Wladyslaw Sikorski in full uniform with decorations. No member of the old Polish Parliament or the old Polish Government which in September fled in haste and disgrace from Warsaw was present...