Newspaper cutting - separated when Nazi hordes invade Poland, they have joyful reunion here

Newspaper cutting - separated when Nazi hordes invade Poland, they have joyful reunion here

Recounts how Sergeant Janek Radonski and Sergeant Ludwik Gutnajer met in Canada as members of the free Polish Air Force. Subsequently the got leave to attend a piano recital given by a friend Witold Malcuzynski in St Johns. Continues with account of concert. Includes b/w photograph of the three.

Newspaper cutting with b/w photograph

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[missing letters]arated When Na[missing letters] Hordes Invade Poland
They Have Joy[missing letters]l Reunion Here

[photograph]

REUNITED almost by chance the group shown smiling happily above recalled last night a much more sombre occasion – more than four years ago – when, as fellow-members of Warsaw's musical society, they sat in the midst of a hushed audience as the society's president made a solemn pronouncement. It was at the time of the German invasion of Poland. “I shall never play again,” at that time said Ignace Paderewski, the great Polish musician and statesman, “until Poland shall be free.” The three young men had been close friends since they were boys, attending the same high school and university. They even had been members of the same orchestra of a Boy Scout troop. But when the Nazi hordes crossed the Polish border they became separated in escaping from their homeland. Sgt. Jan Radonski (left) the Sgt. Ludwik Gutnajer (right) met later as members of the free Polish Air Force in Great Britain, and they were sent out together to complete their flying training in Canada, attached to the R.C.A.F. Stationed at No. 31 S.F.T.S., Moncton, for some weeks, they read in the newspaper the other day that Witold Malcuzynski (centre) distinguished Polish pianist, would perform in this city. The two immediately requested a short leave to come to Saint John. They hadn't even known, they said last night, that their friend was not still in Poland. The fliers were perhaps the most appreciative of the hundreds who heard Malcuzynski in his, brilliant Community Concert recital at the High School last night. Malcuzynski, whose delight in meeting his friends again is much in evidence above, was the last student of Paderewski, with whom he resided in Warsaw for two years. Asked what they thought of Saint John, the Polish fliers told of coming to the city on Christmas leave. An elderly man stopped them on the street, they said. He told them that he was a Scotsman but that he had a great admiration for Poland. They were his guests over the Christmas holiday. Malcuzynski, who is leaving the city today, will perform with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Rodzinski on Sunday, Feb. 27, when his selections will include Chopin's Second Concerto in F Minor and Liszt's Second Concerto in A Major. (For review of last night's recital see Page 8, column 5.)