Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16

Ambassador, who have come to the top
during period when new nationaliSmS
we're taking shape out of the chaos left
by the war and the revolutions which
followed it, have necessarily had careers
vastly more adventurous than anything
which comes to our own routine poll
ticians and diplomats, career men or
otherwise. To find the American equiv
alent of Mr.. Filipowicz, for instance,
one would have to 60 back, I suppose,
to some of the first diplomatic repre-
SentativeS which the newly united Colo
MES sent abroad after our own War Of
independence.
Mr.. Filipowicz knew Pilsudski in his
early youth, and his family, members of
the small country gentry, lived in
Northeastern Poland, although he him
self was born, believe, in Warsaw. He
was educated as mining engineer, and
for a time practiced that profession,
both in the Polish coal country and in
Russia itself. But he soon became abb
Sorbed in the movement for an inde-
pendent. Poland, and after studying at
the School of Economics and Political
Science at the University of London
and learning the English which he now
speaks so fluently, he went during the
Russo-JapaneSe War to Japan with Pill
SudSki in the interests of the cause to
which both were devoted. The two
crossed the United States on that trip
and got smattering of the American
people and scene.
During the political turmoil, both in
Russia proper and in its outlying prov
inces, which accompanied the abortive
revolution of 1905. Filipowicz was ar
rested, tried and deported to Northern
Siberia. But as was characteristic OF
that curious, pre-war, sprawling Rus
sian Empire, in which a man might be
prescribed in one neighborhood and yet
live quite comfortably and unmolested
in another, there were many ways to
arrange" things The Polish prisoner
didn't stay long in Siberia. He found
means after two months there of pass
ing the guards and made his way again
to England.
A Former Journalist.
ySv the days before the war, during
which Mr.. FilipoWicz worked as jour-
nalist and Polish propaganda in Eng
land, and in 19ll-12 lectured on history
at the Cracow School of Political
Science he published in Polish several
books and MISUNDERSTANDING and Her
Autonomy" rs a Constitutional AS
sembly Necessary in Warsaw" "Politi-
cal Dreams" and Problems of Prog
ress," and in English "The Confidential
Documents of the British Government
Concerning the Insurrection in Poland
in 1863" "'
At the outbreak of the World War he
enlisted in Pilsudski's Polish Legion;
was arrested in Warsaw in 1916 and
expelled from the occupied territory by
the German authorities, and in 1917,
when the beginnings of an independent
Polish government were made in War
saw, Filipowicz was sent to Vienna as
the representative of the provisional
Polish state department. In 1918, as
soon as the German forces in Warsaw
had been ,disarmed, he became acting
minister OF foreign affairs, and together
with Marshal Pilsudski signed the cir
cular note to the powers announcing
the formation OF an independent, united
Poland.
The next year he went on a special
mission to Paris and London, and in
1920 headed a Polish mission to South
ern Caucasus. This was In the thick
of the civil and foreign wars which fol-
lowed the Bolshevik revolution. When
1t was in Baku the Polish mission fell
into the hands of the BolSheviks. and
Mr.. Filipowicz spent several months as
prisoner, part of the time in the ia
nous Butirki Prison in Moscow, where
SO many thousands of political prison.
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