Evening star., 1937-10-11
PRESIDENT LEADS
PULASK|DAYR|TES
Declares Poland and u. S.
Bound by Common Love
of Liberty.


bound by a common love Of liberty
which has held them in brotherhood,
IN war and peace. through the century
and half Of this republic, President
Roosevelt pointed out today as he led
the celebration of Pulaski day with a
radio address from the White House.
The central feature of this years
commemoration Of the death OF the
Revolutionary War hero at the siege
OF Savannah in 1779 was the reburial
OF another Polish soldier who more
than three quarters of q century later
fought to preserve the union which
Pulaski helped establish. The body of
Gen. vladimir Krzyzanowski, Civil
War commander, brought from Brook.
lyn by a delegation of 500 POLISH
Americans. was inferred in a final
resting place in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Speeches Of the President and the
Polish Ambassador, Count jerry
Potocki, delivered as the dust of
KrzyzanowsH was lowered into the
grave, were broadcast throughout the
country and carried by short-wave to
Poland.
A high mass in Fort Myer chapel
at 1890 am. preceded the ceremony
in the cemetery.
Delegations From Out of Town.
Other Polish delegations came from
Philadelphia, Chicago and other
points. Events on the days program
included the laying of wreaths at
the statue of Pulaski at Pennsylvania
avenue and Thirteenth street and at
the statue Of another Revolutionary
hero, Kosciusco in Lafayette Park, and
reception at the Polish Embassy.
Tonight. at banquet in the Ward
man Park Hotel, President Ignacy
Moscicki of Poland will speak from
Warsaw and Gen. James G. Harbord
will broadcast greetings from London.
Attorney General Cummings will
speak
President Roosevelt speaking at
11:46 am. from the diplomatic re-
ception room at the White House, said:
In epic struggle of the human
race to govern itself, Poland for CEN
turies has been champion of freedom.
Through stress and storm, whether
her sun shone brightly or suffered
long through temporary eclipse, she
has ever fought to hold aloft the torch
OF human liberty.
Because We hold this ideal Of lib
erty in common, ours has been a long
and unbroken friendship with the
people of Poland. From the DAYS of
our struggle to achieve Nationhood.
unbroken by any rift through the
century-and-a-half Of our life as a
Nation the American people and the
people of Poland have maintained a
friendship based upon this common
spiritual ideal
Declared "Watchwords Of Liberty"
Gen. Krzyzanowski. whose patriot
ism we commemorate today, is another
link to bind us to the people from
which came IN the full tide Of youth
ful promise when shadows lay over
the land which gave him birth. 1t
Is high privilege to bear witness
10 the debt which this country owes
to men Of Polish blood. Gratefully
we acknowledge the services of those
intrepid champions Of human free
dom-Pulaski and Kosciusko, whose
very names are watchwords Of liberty
and whose deeds are part of the i'm
perishable record of American inde-
pendence. Out of the past they speak
to use to bid us guard the heritage
which they helped to bestow.
They and the millions OF other men
and women Of Polish blood. who have
united destinies with those Of Amer
ica-whether in the days of Colonial
settlement; in the war to attain inde-
pendence; In the hard struggle out of
which emerged our national unity; in
great journeyings across the Western
plains to the slopes of the Pacific;
on farm or In town or city-through
all OF our history they have made
their full contribution to the upbuild-
ing OF our institutions and to the
fulfillment Of our national life.
Common Aspiration Of Freedom.
These are the thoughts and refiec-
tons that come to mind today as we
consign to Arlington National Gene
terry the honored dust of a son Of
Poland, who faithfully served the
country of his adoption. Gen. Krzy-
zanowski was the embodiment Of the
Polish ideal Of liberty. Into the max
ing Of that ancient ideal had gone the
struggles and the vissicitudes Of a
thousand years Of Polish national life.
He, whom We honor today no less
than those of his blood and kindred
who preceded him to America or who
followed him to our shores, brought
to us. and with us became partakers
in common aspiration Of freedom.
Neither time nor distance could
erase from stout Polish hearts the
memory of glorious struggle for lib
erty, struggle which happily ended
in our own day and generation in the
restoration of Poland to nationhood
and to her rightful place as SOW
ereign state. As we sympathi7ed in
her aspirations to freedom, so we re-
joice in her attainment of independ-
ence.
I'VE as nation seek spiritual union
with all who love freedom. OF many
bloods and of diverse national origins,
we stand before the world today one
people united in a common determi-
nation. That determination Is to up
hold the ideal of human society which
makes conscience superior to brute
strength-the ideal which would aub- -
stitute freedom for force in the gov
ernments of the world"