Jan Drohojowski

Jan Drohojowski (1901–1979) was a Polish diplomat for the governments of the Second Polish Republic and later, Polish government in exile and the People's Republic of Poland.

Biography Born on 27 January 1901 in Tarnów, he began his diplomatic career around early 1920s, but retired following the May Coup (Poland), and emigrated to the United States, where he was a journalist for some Polish-American press.

Following the onset of WWII he became involved with the Polish government in exile, first working in the Polish embassy in the USA. He was Poland's chargé d' affaires to Cuba (1942), a representative to China (1942), a consul in Jerusalem (1943), and following that he became a deputy minister of information and documentation in the government-in-exile until 1944. He was also a representative of Poland to the United Nations. Following a purge, he was arrested and held until March 1955. oil heiress Katharyn Silva Cornell; they had a daughter Katarzyna Maria Drohojowska. They divorced in 1935, with Cornell alleging that Drohojowski "told risque stories...[and] came to lunch in pajamas". Drohojowski requested, but did not receive, alimony from Cornell, "an unusual plea in court annals." Later around 1940 he married his fellow diplomat Natalia Aszkenazy. They had a son, Adam Francisco (Pancho) Drohojowski, born in Mexico in 1947.