Polish National Alliance (PNA) and Polish American Congress (PAC)
PAC, an umbrella organization of 1,200 Polish-American fraternal, veteran and cultural groups, was established in May 1944 by a large Congress of Polonia in which nearly 2,300 delegates participated representing various Polish and Polish-American organizations. The main goal of the PAC was to help Poland in its struggle for independence by lobbying the US government.
The Congress elected Karol Rozmarek as the first president of the PAC. Under his leadership PAC was the Polish lobby. He was succeeded in 1968 by Aloysius Mazewski, who continued this tradition.
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