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. He spent the rest of his life as a writer and journalist, publishing several books on Latin America, in addition to his memoirs. He died on 2 January 1979 in
Warsaw. ==Personal life==