Promotion

As a mark of the esteem in which France and Poland hold each other, the Polish Minister to France became an Ambassador, the French Minister to Poland became an Ambassador.

Per se, the change was not important, merely promoting the respective French and Polish Ministers to a rank above their ministerial colleagues ;/- but in that it provided an occasion for reaffirmation of solidarity between the two States, the diplomatic eyes of all

Europe gave the event the benefit of an apprehensive glance.

/- At Warsaw, where most of the diplomatic heads are Ministers, the change means that the French Ambassador automatically outranks most of his confreres.