POLAND: Union and Defense

With the fall of Warsaw ancient and historic "Holy Poland" was again without a capital (see p. 32). However, through five centuries, half-a-dozen major wars and three partitions until Hitler & Stalin made the fourth, Poland has endured often as a burning ideal in the hearts of the Polish people rather than as a political fact. It was therefore no surprise last week when a brand new Polish Government popped up in Paris. At the Polish Embassy there it was announced that just before President Ignacy Moscicki fled from Poland to Rumania...

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