Nothing could have been more wholly admirable than the broadcast
talk given by the Polish Ambassador, Count Ftacynski, last Saturday. It was one of those things which are far easier to do badly than to do well. The Ambassador might have appealed for sympathy for his country, for help for his country, for recognition by Englishmen of what she was suffering in the common cause. He did not speak of these things. With simple and unaffected dignity he told how Poland had felt it essential to say No to Hitler, and had said No at whatever cost. Her armies were being driven back, her capital was threatened, open cities were being bombed—but "the fighting goes on." Speaking in perfect English, with just sufficient touch of a foreign accent to make his diction the more attractive, Count Racynski served his country's cause better than the most brilliant of her orators could have done.
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