POLISH COUNTESS
TALK TO UNIVERSITY
WOMEN
At a recent gathering of the University Women's Club, Countess Wodzicka, wife of the Consul-General for Poland in New Zealand, sounded an inspiring note of optimism as to the result of late war developments. She predicted a close union between the British and Polish peoples, because, in spite of the basic difference in the two languages, they had the same religious and political ideals.
The Countess and her husband and family were evacuees from Poland in March, 1940, reaching France at first, and later Oxfordshire, in England Most of the refugee Polish troops are now in Scotland, where they have received a warm welcome, she stated In fact, had the' General given the necessary consenta there would have been many inter-marriages. There seemed a natural affinity between ■ the Scottish and Polish races. Could it be. she asked, that after the fall of the Stuarts, the Jacobite emigres to the Continent had been sufficient in number to leaven the Poles? At any rate, the Polish highlanders played a pipe instrument very similar to the Scottish bagpipes.
The Countess is a graduate of Cracow University, her husband a university professor.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1941, Page 12
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194POLISH COUNTESS Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1941, Page 12
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