Evening star., 1924-01-29
BY THE MARaUIsE DE roNTENoY.

Count Maurice Zamoyskfs appoint
ment as minister of foreign affairs
at Warsaw does not mean any new
departure in the foreign and dones-
tic policies of Poland, but merely
serves to still further emphasize the
close and intimate character of her
relations with France. The count,
who is the head Of the illustrious
house of Zamoyski, which has play
ed SO important a role in the history
Of Poland throughout the last four
or five centuries, has been acting ever
since the recognition of independence
Of Poland by the congress of Versailles
in 1919 as her ambassador in Paris.
serving without pay and taking upon
his shoulders the entire burden of the
expense of maintaining the diplo-
matte representation Of his country
in France and the payment of his
large staff of secretaries and military
and commercial attaches.
Possessed of great wealth he was
in this way enabled to relieve the
national treasury at Warsaw and its
annual budget of the heavy drain
upon its resources at a time when it
was at its wits end for money. Nat
urally this piece Of patriotic gen
erosity on the part Of the count had
the effect Of giving him very
weighty voice in the affairs of his
government. and this, taken in con-
junction with his prestige among all
of his countrymen as head of the
great house of Zamoyski and his in
innate relations with the president Of
the French republic with It's premiers
and leading statesmen. with its great
captains of industry and OF finance
as we'll a s with it's military leaders,
all combined to place him in such g.
position that he virtually dominated
international policies Of Poland from
his stately home in Paris. at IL Rue
Marigon.
And thus it has happened that, al.
though much capital has been made
abroad OF the democracy of the pre-
miers Of Poland. who in several cases
have been drawn from the masses in
stead OF from the classes-,n fact
ne of the most notable of the num-
ber, Farmer WItos, absolutely refus-
ed even when in Office to wear L
white collar or a necItie and tuck
ed his trousers in his boots-yet in
reality the government of Poland has
been dominated by the patrician
chieftain of one of her great houses
of the territorial nobility which has
it's unselfsh and self-sacrificing pa
triotism Heretofore the principal
international affairs of Poland have
been conducted by the various for
etgn powers on the banks OF the
Count Maurice zamoyski to War
saw, they will from henceforth be
conducted on the banks of the Wis
tula.
Count Maurice 2amoyski. who is
cess Marie Sapieha, OF family
which Is well known in the United
States. belongs to the so-callcd
"Uradep OF the nation. that is TO
say, which has ranked rs noble since
before the dawn OF its history. Its
members have on moro than one oc-
casion refused to accept their elec-
ton to the throne OF Poland, notably
John Sarius dc Zamoyski, who in
1887 stood aside and. caused SiEis-
sovereign dynasty Of Wssa, 20 he
proclaimed as King of Poland In his
stead. This John Zamoyski had years
earlier headed the embassy that had
crown of Poland to Henri de Valois,
Duke Of AnJou. who reigned as
King OF Poland at Warsaw for few
years before abdicating in, order to
ascend the throne OF France as
Henry Ill on the death of his elder
brother. King Charles IN. Jean
Zamoyski was also the grand chan
cellor of Poland throughout Sue
cessive reigns, was n celebrated gen
eral who repeatedly defeated the
Russians IN battle and who in 1883
prosperous manufacturing town of
Zamosk in the province of Lubin, re-
nowned for the number of times that
it was unsuccessfully besieged by the
Russians. ----.-.-- ---.s--.--- =
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Then there was Count Andrew
Zamoyslsi. who was grand chancellor
Of the kingdom Of Poland in the