Saragossa in Spain is the city that will go down in history as the only place ever to put Paderewski in prison. The President’s entire party was placed under house arrest, and the fact that they were allowed to stay in their hotel did little to relieve the affront. [Illustration: “... _to remain until Poland is free_.”] For five days, under a flimsy pretext of being concerned for Paderewski’s safety, the authorities of Saragossa kept the seven unwilling visitors confined to their hotel. Finally a cable from President Franklin Roosevelt direct to Generalissimo Franco got them out. No apology, no further explanation was ever heard from Saragossa. But by October, after a happy and reasonably relaxed trip through Portugal, they all boarded the American Export liner _Excambion_, and on November 6 they sailed into New York harbor. It was Paderewski’s 80th birthday. The Americans, who had loved and admired Paderewski for almost half a century, would have worn him out with receptions and dinners in his honor. But settling himself quietly in the Buckingham Hotel, he spent his time and strength in talking and corresponding with those who were most important to the present and future welfare of Poland. In June he asked to speak at a Polish war veterans’ rally in Oak Ridge, New Jersey. The day was hot and the rally itself was a steamy, exhausting affair. Paderewski went home very tired and feeling as though he had caught a cold. Within a week, on the 29th of June, several hours after a priest had given him the sacrament of Extreme Unction, Paderewski died. At his funeral in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, with nearly 5,000 crowded inside and 35,000 outside lining Fifth Avenue and the adjacent streets, Cardinal, then Archbishop, Spellman eulogized Paderewski, saying “his death steeps the entire civilized world in mourning.” And then the train took his body to Washington where it lay in state in the Polish Embassy until the following day. The President of the United States had personally arranged for Paderewski’s burial in a way that offered the greatest honor in the country’s power. By special order, the body was taken to Arlington Cemetery, ordinarily reserved for American citizens who have served in their country’s armed forces. As Paderewski’s coffin, mounted on a military caisson, entered the gates of Arlington, cannon fired a 19-gun salute, the highest number possible to anyone not the head of a state. Flanked by United States soldiers, sailors, and marines, and joined by a squad of Polish soldiers in Canadian uniform, the caisson moved to the very center of the Cemetery. There, under the mast of the battleship _Maine_, Paderewski’s coffin was placed in a vault “to remain until Poland is free.”