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- <text id=90TT0803>
- <title>
- Apr. 02, 1990: American Notes:Foreign Policy
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 02, 1990 Nixon Memoirs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- FOREIGN POLICY
- Homecoming For a Hero
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> When he died in New York in 1941, Ignace Jan Paderewski was
- the world's most acclaimed pianist as well as Poland's most
- beloved patriot. President Franklin Roosevelt vowed that only
- when Poland was once again a free country would Paderewski's
- remains be returned to his native land.
- </p>
- <p> Half a century later, Poland is rushing toward democracy,
- and officials are looking at the 50th anniversary of his death
- as a fitting day for a homecoming. During his visit to
- Washington last week, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki visited
- Paderewski's grave in Arlington Cemetery. Whenever his bones
- are returned, his heart will remain in the U.S.--literally.
- Following family wishes, the musician's heart has been
- enshrined since 1986 at Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine in
- Doylestown, Pa., and there it shall stay.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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