From Versailles to Locarno
Anna M. Cienciala and Titus Komarnicki FROM VERSAILLES TO LOCARNO Keys to Polish Foreign Policy 1919-1925 * ISBN 0-7006-0247-X Anna M. Cienciala was born in Poland and spent the first ten years of her life there. She witnessed the Polish-German war of 1939, the German invasion of France in 1940, the Battle of Britain, and the German V-l and V-2 raids on Great Britain in 1944. She studied at the University of Liverpool, McGill University, Columbia University's Russian Institute, and Indiana University. She is the author of Poland and the Western Powers, 1938-1939: A Study in the Interdependence of Eastern and Western Europe, as well as numerous articles on European diplomatic history in U.S. and Polish scholarly journals. She has taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa, and is now professor of history and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas. Titus Komarnicki (1896-1967), author of Rebirth of the Polish Republic: A Study in the Diplomatic History of Europe, 1914-1920 and editor of three of the four volumes of the papers of Jan Szembek, was* born and educated in Poland. He took an active part in the war for Poland's independence, and was awarded the Cross of Valor and the Independence Cross. He entered the Polish Diplomatic Service in 1917, attended the Locarno Conference in 1925 as Secretary General of the Polish Delegation, and in 1934 was appointed Permanent Delegate to the League of Nations. He was Minister to Switzerland (1938-1940), underground repre• sentative of the Polish government in unoccupied France (1942-1943), Minister to the Dutch Government in London, and, later, Professor of International Law at the Polish School of Political and Social Science in London.
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