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...early as Sept. 4, the Polish government began evacuating Warsaw. The Bank of Poland sent its gold reserves south, to a haven near the Rumanian border. On Sept. 7 the Foreign Ministry told all diplomats that President Ignacy Moscicki, Premier Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski and their Cabinet ministers were leaving immediately by truck convoy for Naleczow, a resort 85 miles southeast of Warsaw. Finding no telephone lines working and almost no electricity, the ministers and diplomats trekked onward the next day to Krzemieniec, some 200 miles farther southeast. Throughout this flight, they were repeatedly attacked by German planes, for the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blitzkrieg September 1, 1939: a new kind of warfare engulfs Poland | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

President of the Council of Ministers: Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Leaders, September 1939, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Slawoj-Skladkowski: swa-voy-skwad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...chauffeurs, pitched in until soft hands were raw. Men went straight from shops and offices to dig by night. Musicians' guilds and actors' associations were given schedules for digging. Alexandra Pilsudska, widow of Poland's great Josef Pilsudski, broke ground. The Mayor of Warsaw dug, and so did Premier Slawoj Skladkowski, right in his own front yard (he directed workers to dig in the lawn, avoiding the flower beds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: National Glue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Government to copy Herr Hitler's tactics and assume a protectorate over Danzig. Since the Führer saw fit to denounce the Polish-German Treaty in a public speech, the Polish Government decided to answer him in kind. This week Foreign Minister Josef Beck and Premier Felicjan Slawoj-Sklad-kowski are to go before the Polish Parliament and say their say about Herr Hitler. An unnamed spokesman for the British Cabinet declared: "If Poland fights, Britain and France will fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Danger Spot | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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