Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-13
POland's Memorial to Wilson
Joins Two Friendly Nations

Dedication by Poland of the monu-
ment to Woodrow Wilson. designed by
Gutzon Borglum and presented by
Ignace Psderewski. is viewed by Amer
leans as the symbol CT cnother link be-
tween the United States and the nat!>1
whose patriots helped us to win our
freedom
"As definitely as they know the name
of Lafayette, the French nobleman who
came over to help win independence for
this country" says the Pittsburgh Post
Gazette, American schoolboys and
schoolgirls also know the names OF
those Polish noblemen, KoSciuSZko and
Pulaski, who likewise aided the Amer
lean cause. More than 140 years later
Americans were to go in force to the
lard of Lafayette to stand shoulder to
shoulder with his people in the greatest
struggle in history. At the same time
the Americans were to give most dis
tinguished and powerful aid to the
people of Kosciuszko and Pulaski in
their long struggle for the restoration
of the independence of their country
The Post-Gazette is impressed by the
fact that at the recent unwilling in
Poznan, the mayor of that city said
that the entire Polish nation paid trib-
ute through the memorial and the
ceremony to the great American democ-
racy and its great leader of the World
War period"
The cordial relationship existing be-
tween Pol2nd and the United States, "
declares the Cleveland News. was fur
Their strengthened by the dedication. +"
That paper continues: IF the Wilson
memorial was an expression of appre-
citation for American aid and a tribute
to the friendly interest of one America n
President, the message of President
Hoover. read at the exercises. was an
acknowledgment of Poland'S services to
America. Mr.. Hoover praised I'M
stintedly the sacrifices of Kosciuszko,
Pulaski and other Polish volunteers
who made their way acr- IS the seas
end fought in the ragged regiments of
Washington 1t ives a naive express
sion of faith that Mayor Ratajski of
Poznan uttered when he said that no
one feared or envied the greatness OF
the United States because Anne "a
recognized that her own welfare was
the welfare of all the nations. 1t is
upon such confidence that international
friendships are based"
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1.-THE ceremonies strengthened senti-
ments already strong" according to the
Hartford Courant, which concludes as
to the memorial: 1.-The status differs
from the other memorials tn Wilson in
Europe in that it represents the peculiar
debt of a single nation rather than the
common debt OF an entire continent.
Poland has good reason to be grateful
to Wilson While the independence OF
Poland was promised long before VII
son made it one of the fourteen points
the emotion which he lent to its advo-
cacy was in large measure responsible
for its achievement. Many compromises
we're made during the writing of the
treaty CT Versailles. but the promise
made to Poland was kept in full"
Reviewing the honors that foreign
nations are bestowing on the name OF
Wilson," the Charlotte Observer states
The unwilling of a statue to the great
war President in Poland, made notable
by participation Of Mrs Wilson, is but
an item. In Prague. the depot that
bore the name of a King was rededi-
Gated to the memory of Wilson, and his