"POLAND IMMORTAL"
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL M. PADEREWSKI PRESIDENT PARIS, Jan. 23. M. Paderewski has been elected president of the Polish National Council, which will function as a Parliament until the end of the war. It includes all political parties, the Church, the army, trade, Jews, women, and three members of the Peasant Party, which was the largest political" group in pre-war Poland. M. Paderewski, after his election, reduced the majority of his hearers to tears in the course of his speech at the Polish Embassy. Facing a specially-erected altar, where the assembly took an oath to liberate their homeland, he declared: "Poland is immortal. We will deliver her from captivity and raise her from the ruins. Our army will bring liberty to our oppressed brothers after the final victory beside the Allied armies."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24205, 25 January 1940, Page 10
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