Frank Herbert Simons

     Author Kellogg, Charlotte. Title Jadwiga, Poland's great queen, by Charlotte Kellogg; with a preface by Ignaz Jan Paderewski, and an introduction by Frank H. Simonds. Imprint New York, The Macmillan Company, 1931. [1932]
      Author Kellogg, Charlotte. Title Jadwiga, Queen of Poland / by Charlotte Kellogg ; with a preface by Ignace Jan Paderewski and an introduction by Frank A. Simonds. Publisher Washington : Anderson House, 1936.

The romance of Jadwiga and Jagiello is so moving in itself, that it must seem a piece of unforgivable pedantry to undertake to load it with historical incumbrances. And yet, aside from the union of Ferdinand and Isabella, it may be questioned whether any royal marriage in Europe ever had more far-reaching consequences, . . .

      Between the two royal marriages, those of Ferdinand and Isabella and of Jadwiga and Jagiello, the parallel is . . . striking. The union of Castile and Aragon, had, as its immediate consequence, the expulsion of the Moors from Spain and as its eventual result the launching of Spain upon her great period of European power and American empire. And, precisely in the same fashion, the union of Poland and Lithuania proved the prelude to the breaking of the power of the Teutonic Knights upon the field of Tannenberg and was the beginning of three centuries of Polish greatness culminating in the exploit of John Sobieski under the walls of Vienna.

      Thus, in a very real sense the issue of this marriage, which Mrs. Kellogg has described in her vivid and fascinating chapters, was Poland, that Poland which was destined for long centuries to be the soldier of Christianity and the servant of western culture in all of the east of Europe from the Baltic to the Black Sea and from the Warthe to the Dnieper.

      Moreover, if one is to understand the Poland of today, which, at the very dawn of its renaissance resumed its ancient mission by breaking the invasive force of Bolshevism before the gates of Warsaw, the first essential is to know something of those centuries of greatness and achievement which extend from the first Jagiello at least to the death of Sobieski.

      Only thus can one measure the unanimous and irresistible impulse which drove the Poles to reclaim that ancient window of their race upon the sea . . , to reoccupy their second capital, the Vilno of Jagiello, and to defend Lvov, which has been the Verdun of Poland in the southeast for untold centuries.

      What the world had too easily forgotten in the long generations of Polish captivity was not merely that Poland had once been a great power, but also that even in slavery the Poles remained in tradition, in numbers, above all in spirit, a great people, certain, once their prison doors were opened, to seek not merely their old liberty but their historic unity, that unity described in the Proclamation of Lublin in 1569 in language which the revolutionaries of 1792 borrowed to announce the French Republic as �one and indivisible.� And the Proclamation of Lublin was no more than the reaffirmation of the union achieved through the marriage of Jadwiga and Jagiello.

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      Today, [the Polish frontiers] are symbols of a territorial unity older than that of any other European people, great or small, which, before the United States achieved national existence, had endured twice as long as the span between Washington and Hoover.
      And the permanent service of Mrs. Kellogg�s book lies precisely in the fact that she has not merely provided an authentic portrait of a noble and romantic figure and a fascinating picture of the pageantry of mediæval ceremony but has also seized upon one of the great and illuminating events in the history of a people, whose liberation was not impossibly the greatest single result of the world War [I]   . .  . (etc). 0

FRANK H. SMONDS

Author Kellogg, Charlotte. Title Jadwiga, Queen of Poland / by Charlotte Kellogg ; with a preface by Ignace Jan Paderewski and an introduction by Frank H. Simonds. Publisher Washington : Anderson House, 1936. Description xxiii, 251 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Note Bibliography: p. [243]-244. Language English Subject Jadwiga, Queen, consort of Wladis�aw II Jagie��o, King of Poland, 1374-1399.

Author Buell, Raymond Leslie, 1896-1946. Title Foreign problems confronting the new administration, discussed by Raymond Leslie Buell, Walter Millis [and] Frank H. Simonds. February 23, 1933. New York evening meeting. Publisher New York : Foreign Policy Association, 1933. Description 31 p. 23 cm. Series Foreign Policy Association. Pamphlet ;no. 88 Series Pamphlet (Foreign Policy Association) ;no. 88. Language English

Author Kellogg, Charlotte. Title Jadwiga, Poland's great queen, by Charlotte Kellogg; with a preface by Ignaz Jan Paderewski, and an introduction by Frank H. Simonds. Imprint New York, The Macmillan Company, 1931. Descript xxvi p., 1 l., 304 p. front. 23 cm. Subject Jadwiga, Consort of Vladislaus II Jagiello, King of Poland, 1371-1399.