>> translator: your excellency, distinguished mr. president, distinguished ladies and gentlemen. i am delighted that in this year so important to poland, the year of poland regaining its independence, we celebrate our 100th anniversary of it. i'm able to be hosted here at the state of the president of the united states at the white house at washington. and also from this perspective of the centennial of poland regaining its independence, this fact is future for polls especially the 10 million living in the united states, this is of huge symbolic importance. one reason for that is that the matter of polish independence was one of the important points of the policy of the u.s. president wilson. it was precisely president