HOPE SOF POLAND.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 April 1919, Page 6

HOPE SOF POLAND.

PADEREWSKI'S ELOQUENCE

LONDON, April 8.

M Padcrcwski, President of Poland, is still long-haired, pale, and ascetic. His rich voice is now tremulous, now fierce. His sharp features are at first suave and placid, then thunderous. To-day he told Poland's strange story and the re-birth of nope arid trouble.

Paderewski has not opened a piano since the great call came to him hi. 19.17, and his call came to him in 1917 and his beautiful wife who has gone everywhere with him. and stood beside aim while he iceeived the newspaper eorrespnodents b.a.s shared also hig many sacrifices.

They have given their fortune, art, aad happiness to Poland's cause. Padcrcwski is an eloquent advocate of Pn!fL' ; He pictured the rejoicings of the nation over the Allies' emancipation, and the great surging and outcries when the news of the Commission,':- favourable recommendations spread. Then the doubts that w-re I caused when the Danzig question arose | and new *hc anxiety and fear. Thus I all delegations speak of their iO\vn i special national interests.

Paderewski said that the defeat of the Ukrainians at Lemberg, and the raising of the siege by a force seat from Posnadia, showed how the Poles were ready to fight for freedom. "Give us money, raw materials, food, and Danzig," he said. "If you destroy cur hope you'll destroy the moral strength of the nation and provoke anarchy."