SIKORSKI’S RECORD
HEAD OF POLISH GOVERNMENT IN EXILE.
The Polish Prime Minister and Com-mandcr-in-Chief, General Sikorski, worked with Marshal Pilsudski during the last war for the M Poland. The victory of the Al ics m 1918 released from German and Austrian prisons leading Poles who had been accused of secret Their dream of a free unll ed Poland came true. Pilsudski became Chici o State and Sikorski took a prominent part in forming the Polish Army. Later he was made Chief of Stan, and for a time, at Pilsudski's suggestion, he took over the P1 f ’ cm , ie '.' sl ]' p ' When, in 1926. Pilsudski effected the coup which made him Dictator, Sikoiski a staunch democrat, retired rom the Army and went to live in a little flat in Paris. There he wrote military books, returning to Poland at intervals to look after his country estate. It was in that little flat that General Sikorski formed his Free Polish Government in 1939. After Poland fell, he organised the Polish Legions in Pans On the collapse of France he brought his Government and the best part of his troops to Britain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1942, Page 6
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189SIKORSKI’S RECORD Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1942, Page 6
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