The Polish National Department (PND, Polish: Wydział Narodowy Polski, WNP) was a major organization of Polish-American Polish diaspora in United States around and after World War I.[1] Originally the Polish Central Relief Committee and based in Chicago, it organized relief for war-torn and newly independent Second Polish Republic. Prominent activists included world-famous pianist and future prime minister of Poland, Ignacy Jan Paderewski and former Illinois Treasurer John F. Smulski.[2]
PND was aligned to Polish endecja faction of Roman Dmowski, and opposed to Committee of National Defense (CND, Komitet Obrony Narodowej, KON), aligned to Józef Piłsudski's faction.
Notes
edit- ^ Adam Walaszek, POLISH IMMIGRANTS IN THE USA AND THEIR HOMELAND 1914-1923
- ^ Maciej Sierkierski, Helena Paderewska: Memoirs, 1910-1920 (Hoover Institution Press 2015) pp. 54, 115 ISBN 978-0-8179-1864-4
Further reading
edit- M. B. B. Biskupski, "The Polish National Department, 1916-1925: A Review Essay," Polish American Studies 47, no. 2 (1991): 81–86.
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