Mr. Speaker. although American history is replete with the efforts of such outstanding Polish heroes as Kosciusko and Pulaski. who fought so gallantly for our Nations freedom. we are not so well aware of the part played by the first Polish immigrants who landed at Jamestown. Va.. and contributed mightily to the success of the first English settlement in America. A753 On October 18. 1953. Admiral Chandler. president of William and Mary College. delivered an address commemorating the 345th anniversary of the landing of Poles in America at Jamestown. Va.. and I commend to my colleagues the reading of this brief historical sketch of early colonial days told so humanly by Admiral Chandler in his address which follows: THREE HUNDRED AND FoRryFrrH ANNivER-
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