HOPES OF POLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17145, 26 April 1919, Page 9

HOPES OF POLAND.

PADEREWSKI'B ELOQUENCE. LONDON, April 8. M. Pnderewski, President of Poland, is still long-haired, pale, and ascetic His rich voice is now tremulous, now fierce. Hie sharp features are at first suave anti placid, then thunderous. Today he told Poland's strange story and the rebirth of hope and trouble. Paderewski has not opened a piano since the great call came to him in 1917, and his beaut fu! wife who has gone everywhere with him, and stood beside hm while he receivid the newspaper correspondents, has ehared also his many sacrifices. They have given their fortune, art, Bnd' happiness to Poland's cause. Pad rewski is an eloquent advocate of Poland. He pictured the rejoicings of the nation over the Allies' emancipation, and the great surging and outcries when the news of the Commission's favourable recommendations spread. Then the doubts that were caused when the Danzig question arose, and now the anxiety and fear. Thus all delegations sneak of their own special national inte ests. Paderewski said that the defeat of the Ukrainians at Lemburg, and the rais ; ng of the siege by a force sent from Peenadia, showed how the Poles were ready to fight for freedom. " Give us money, raw materials, food, and Danzig," he said. "If you destroy our hope you'll destroy the moral strength oi-tfie nation and provoke anarchy."