Tadeusz Romer (1894-1978), Polish diplomat and politician. He studied agronomy and political science in Fribourg, Switzerland. In 1917, he was appointed secretary of the Polish National Committee in Paris. He later worked in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and served as Polish ambassador to Italy, Portugal, and Japan (1937-1941), where he helped finance Polish Jewish refugees and provide them with visas to Japan. He created the "Polish Committee for Relief of War Victims" and appointed his wife Zofia as chairman of the committee. After the Polish embassy in that country was closed, he went to Shanghai, where, as High Commissioner of the Polish Republic, he continued this humanitarian aid. In 1942, he took up the post of Polish ambassador in Moscow. Appointed High Commissioner of the Republic of Poland for the Middle East and immediately appointed in London as Foreign Minister of the Polish Government in Exile (1943-1944). In 1948, he emigrated with his family to Canada, where he taught French literature and culture at McGill University for several years. He died in Montreal.