Evening star., 1925-12-13
New Polish Minister
Youngest of Present
Corps of Diplomats
Mr.. J an Ciencharowski, Who
Recently Presented Gre
dentials, Well Prepared
F for Duties of Position.

The new Polish Minister. Mr.. Jan
Cienchanowski, who was received by
President Coolidge on Friday, made
/ his first visit to this country when
ne accompanied the then minister OF
foreign affairs, now the Polish pre-
|. mier, Count Alexander SkrZynski,
who arrived during August to lecture
Z before the Institute of Politics in
Williamstown, Mass. He was the
companion of the count during the
several weeks in which they accepted
, the hospitality of friends and admir-
eers in several cities. and he takes up
his new work much heartened by the
manifest interest and sympathy which
this republic shows in the ancient
and fair land of Poland. The Minister
!, has had a distinguished career in
preparation for his present duties.
though he Is still within the 30s, and
will be among the youngest ENJOYS
] who have ever served in this Capital
and the youngest of all who are mem
bers of the present foreign corps.
He was born on his family estates
in Grodzico, in what was then Rus
. sian Poland, but which since the re-
establishment of the national soVer-
He received an excellent preparatory
education at the Polytechnic lnsu-
, tute Of karlsruhe in Baden and
graduated in 1908 from the University
of Birmin CHAM. England. He elected
to devote his technical knowledge 10
the management of his family estates
and was engaged in peaceful pursuits
of agriculture and kindred problems
when the great war storm broke III
1914 After the German armies had
invaded his province and conquered 1t
he accepted service under the Ger
mans for the relief work then so nee
essary. From 1917 he was in Paris
with the nterparliamentary COM
mittee struggling for Polish freedom
and when that was accomplished ne
entered the first ministry at Warsaw
as an expert on English affairs and
later had charge of the AnSlo-Amerl-
can section. He became known to
hundreds of Americans as the chief
secretary of Premier Paderewskl at
the Versailles conference.
London has been the home OF the
new Polish Minister at various times
and in different diplomatic roles, ana
it was during a sojourn there, hrst
as counselor of legation and then as
charge d'affaires of Poland, that a
romance between him and Miss kock
de Gooreynd terminated in the happy
way of matrimony. This was In l92l.
Mr.. and Nine. Cienchanowski con-
tinued to reside in London for three
years after this happy event and they
have many close friends among
American diplomats now stationed in
Washington. Mr.. and Mrs. j. Butler
Wright are among these. for they
were of the American Ambassadors
staff at this time. When the Polish
Minister in his new role was received
by Mr.. Kellogg it was to renew pleas
ant relations begun in England three
years ago.
The Polish Minister and Nine.
Cienchanowski have two small sons
Jan, who is 4, and Ladislaus, who
is 2-and this will continue the tradi-
ton for the present legation ever
since it became the diplomatic home
of the Polish republic. The first
envoy, Count Lubomirski, had group
of fine young sons, ranging from 10
TO 6, and NJ. Wroblewski had three
little ones who took firm hold on
the affections of Washington. The
two little boys in the CienchanoSyski
home seem destined to do the same,
but Just now they are very shy and
have yet to become accustomed to
their new environment. The Minister
and his wife speak perfect EnEllsh,
and their name. 1t is explained D not
nearly SO difficult to pronounce as
would be judged from the spelling of
1t. 1t is as though the first letters
were not there at all and to say Cha
noWsk is not such a feat. Nine. Cien-
chanoWski Is young and Interested IN
social affairs and she will, when the
first rush of life at a new capital is
over. begin the leisurely and constant
system of entertaining which is part
of Polish existence. Hospitality IS
said 10 be the national virtue of
Poland and to judge from the digni-
fled manner in which its ENJOYS at
this Capital have dispensed it is to be
convinced that this is true.