PRESIDENCY OF POLAND.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20776, 9 February 1933, Page 13

PRESIDENCY OF POLAND.

■ (►-* —, fr w-, 1 M. PADRREWSKI MAT -»«*:• . CANDIDATE | ; |sf§ \ (UNITED PBESB ASSOOimOH-it-'»■<<««• , TBLBfl®U^K w **COP , t3Stt6HT.) , 1 (Received February 8, 7.56 p.m.) _ PROVIDENCE (Rhodes Island), February 7. M. Ignace Paderewaki, th& famou* ' pianist, and' a former Premier of Poland, said on Tuesday night that he » . '•could not possibly deny the rumour that he may be a candidate for . the Presidency of Poland." | Though M. Paderewski is best known to people outside Europe as «pn« - of the greatest pianists in the W«M, lie was> during the immediate postwar period, a leading political filtur®During the Great War bft awoW JU* time mainly to giving concerts fiji; the ; benefit of Polish war sutterars and , public speaking on behalf of Polind, but in 1917 be organised in. the TJnited States an army of Polish, volunteer*/ known as the Polish Army in France. He was the oflicially-recognised representative of the Polish people" at-t Washington in 1917 and 1918., ITo*iWw ,1 < one of the leaders in the organ ii*ti©B of the Polish Republic in 1019, end' was Premier in the same year. He! was a member of the Peace Conference, and in 1920 was the first Polish delegate to the Council of Ambamdottg and to th* League of Naii«il&' in 1920.]