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Show PAOEREWSKI 13 RETURN TO U. S. FOR LONG VISIT Pianist-Statesman Says It Is True That He Has Retired From Concert Stage Bi MILTON RROKKER European Manager, n E, V (Kin-, i .1 :m-i etch 1 GENEVA; Dec. ignace J. Pader-: ewskl will return to America, for an' indefinite slay, soon after New Yen. he told inc today In an Interview. "Ted my American friends and I iltM.r mv5elf to think 1 have many . thai if everything goes well I shall be back in your rountry within about, rovpn weekn." he said. "I am going to take a much needed 1 rest Then your people can see for themselves 1 am not a sick man but merely r-uiKUP!! by Incessant political labors of the last ''Ix years. I have a small estate in r.illfornia and 1 find myself longing to vik.i tne state. T M VRTYK rO M l IllTls Paderewski asked me to "please correct the impression that 1 am u martyr to neuritis." Paderewski said that it was true b would play the piano no more but I not because of neuritis in his hands, us reported J have voluntarily ended my artistic artis-tic career," he said "to serve my 1 country politically and help bring the life-Ions; dream of free l'olnnd to fulfillment ful-fillment "The false report about neuritis was Immediately followed by an avalanche' of letters from famous doctors offering offer-ing to cure me and by scores of mea- ! nffea Of sympathy from friends, many beintf Americans Recently some of. i.ur countrymen here In Kuropc ex-pressed ex-pressed to mc sorron that my poor hands were suffering so. I convinced them to the contnary by giving them b real American handshako 1 1 Paderewski Is head of the Polish .delegation In the league assembly. Hi" pale blond hair and red mustache arc the same as ever. Paderewski doesn't' look like B slok man, but his blue eyes showed fatigue. He 'halted easily and with humor especially when he told of the plicm of his American friends in .1 dr country coun-try who had Informed him clubs were now like morgue. I "I want to ask America not lo be Impatient, if Poland has not done everything eJtpeetcd Of her" Padercw-j ski said. "Remember my country is surrounded by dangers Many frontiers front-iers ;ire still In doubt and the Poles have been compelled to finht 25 months after other people began to , enjoy peace. "Your powerful and fortunate 1 America started weak anil poor and . took a long time to draft the constl-Ultlon constl-Ultlon and move forward Poland In I a given time hopes to do likewise. PUT TOGXTniElt IN A YEAR "Remember, my country, torn as- sunder many years ago by powerful 'States, cannot be put together In ft 'year or even several yqars. Difficult ', leconomlc, educational, Industrial and' , human ouesttons must be solved. Patriotic Poles dream with me of a I free Poland the eastern outpost of SStsrn civilization which will in the 'years to come form a great democratic nation. Poland, when allowed to work n peace, will be one. of the greatest States of Europe AVe also have mineral resources,1 and if wo get Upper Silesia we will be independent Industrially, as we will then have th.; coal necessary to build: up Industries. "I think these things are. on their j way to fulfillment. "I hope to e able to give place to, younger men. but 1 am thankful to bays been permitted the opportun to serve mv country to the best of my abilities. "Nowhere was I able to raise my voice and plead Poland's cause more Effectively than iri America For that 1 shall be forever grateful." |