Word: anti-pilsudski
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...crop-headed Marshal Joseph Pilsudski's French-subsidized Polish Legion, was wounded, mentioned in despatches, thrice taken prisoner. In 1919 he gained his first fame as a caricaturist with a pictorial biography of his former commander. European editors, unable to read the text, erroneously decided it was anti-Pilsudski in intent. Three years ago he moved to Paris to live. L'Illustration printed several of his Paris street scenes. British editors were entranced. He went to London to make a series of drawings for the Graphic. In January FORTUNE imported him to the U. S. to depict political...
...nothing in particular to do with Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a great deal to do with Ignace Paderewski. It was there that he landed from a British warship in 1919 while Germans still held the town, to become Poland's first Premier. Poznan has always been a Paderewski, anti-Pilsudski bailiwick. The Wilson unveiling resolved itself into a grand Paderewski jamboree. Dictator Pilsudski and Pianist Paderewski (officially tending his sick wife in Switzerland) both considered it wise to absent themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited. At the last minute, lest the Paderewskites should stage some really serious...
Unfortunate were two Socialist Deputies who attended an anti-Pilsudski meeting the following morning at the foot of Warsaw's monument to Romulad Traugut. Police, charging the meeting with drawn sabres, slashed these Deputies painfully. Together they addressed a formal letter to Civil Marshal Daszynski...
...Polish troops ruthlessly suppressed strikes and anti-Pilsudski riots in Eastern Galicia...
...Posen the self-appointed anti-Pilsudski régime of General Haller (TIME, May 31) issued ominous manifestoes...
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