Petkiewicz. "Diplomatic courier of the Polish State Department ... his expenses in the U. S. are defrayed by the Polish Government. . . ." So ran a letter from the Polish minister, signed by V. Podoski, First Secretary of the Polish Legation. Read to the Amateur Athletic Union in Manhattan last week, it caused the Executive Committee—now puzzled only to know why he had never told them he was a diplomat—to rescind its debarment of Stanislaw Petkiewicz (TIME, Jan. 13), and give him permission to run in those U. S. meets in which his...
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