Episode #28, Farewell to James Nutter | Poland in WW1 | Government federalizes US Shipbuilding | Junior Master Gardener Poppy Project | They Also Served but were overlooked and more…
Summary: <br> Highlights<br> <br> We say farewell to Former Commissioner James Nutter: Dan Dayton |@ 00:30<br> Poland in WW1 - Part 1: The Oath Crisis |@ 01:45<br> Poland in WW1 - Part 2: What you probably did not know: Jan Lorys |@ 03:45<br> The US government federalizes the shipbuilding industry |@ 10:45<br> Women take up the fight in Europe: Mike Shuster |@ 19:15<br> Americans who fought before America’s declaration: Richard Rubin & Jonathan Bratten |@ 23:30<br> President Trump in Paris for Bastille Day WW1 Commemoration |@ 28:45<br> Junior Master Gardener Poppy Project: Lisa Whittlesey |@ 29:30<br> NYC museum exhibit: “Posters & Patriotism” |@ 35:45<br> Utah grant program for WW1 events, research and memorials |@ 36:45<br> “They Also Served” overlooked WW1 participants |@ 37:45<br> Story about Star Spangled Banner widely picked up |@ 40:15<br> The Buzz about gas:Katherine Akey |@ 42:15<br> <br> And more….<br> <br> <br> Opening<br> Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - It’s about WW1 news 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 News NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.<br> WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. Today is July 12th, 2017 and I’m Theo Mayer - Chief Technologist for the World War One Centennial Commission and your host.<br> Announcement<br> We open today with an announcement from Dan Dayton, the Commission’s Executive Director.<br> Remembering Former Commissioner James Nutter who passed away this week at age 89. Dan Dayton reads a remembrance of Commissioner Nutter and all he did for us here at the commission.<br> World War One THEN<br> 100 Year Ago This Week<br> [sound transition]<br> We have moved back in time 100 years ago. Today our wayback machine also crosses the Atlantic to view a crisis that arises in Poland - known as the Polish Oath Crisis!<br> Poland in WW1 - Part 1<br> Germany, has been hoping to use Poland’s extensive manpower to help them fight the war,<br> Jozef Piłsudski, the leader of the Polish Legion has grown disillusioned with the Central Powers that Germany set up in Poland under the 1916 promise of independence after the war - if Poland sides with her. <br> By now, the revolution in Russia has removed the hated Czar and brought in a government that will probably support Polish independence. Plus... America’s entry into the war makes it even more likely that any Allied-enforced peace will recognize full Polish self-determination, instead of a nominal independence as a German vassal.<br> Jozef Piłsudski sees his chance to make his objections known this week, when the German installed governor of Poland requires that all the soldiers in the Polish Legion swear a loyalty oath to a “future King” of Poland and to be a “loyal brother-in-arms” to the Germans and Austrians! <br> On July 8th, Pilsudski resigns from the provisional government, and instructs the men of the Polish Legions not to swear the oath. The next day, on July 9th most of them agree - and publicly refuse to do so, many throwing down their weapons in protest.<br> This is does not go over well. <br> Polish-Austrian subjects in the Legions are forcibly drafted back into the Austrian army and sent off to the Italian front;<br> Russian and German subjects who refused to swear the oath are treated as enemy combatants and are arrested as prisoners of war. <br> Jozef Piłsudski himself is arrested by the Germans and remains in captivity until the final weeks of the war.<br> Poland in WW1 - Part 2:<br> To help us understand the story of Poland and Polish Americans in WW1, we have a special guest with us today.<br> Jan Lorys, is a historian and the former Director of the Polish Museum of America in Chicago…<br> Welcome Jan!<br> [Jan: to begin with, can you put - Poland as an independent people, nation and culture into t
