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Last week the "Walrus of Warsaw,' shrewd and sturdy old Marshal Josef Pilsudski, became the first of Europe's crop of post-War dictators to confer full and sweeping powers on his puppet...
...decade and more beloved Marshal Pilsudski has refused to be President, skulking happily in his War Ministry, refusing to confer with politicians, making occasional picturesque and unprintable speeches to the delighted rabble, ruling Poland as he pleases with the excuse, "Parliament is unfit to rule. Parliament is a prostitute...
...from his yachting holiday off Florida was to peep under Louis Howe's oxygen tent and say hello to his ailing No. 1 Secretary. Second thing was to summon to the White House Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns and Chairman Robert Lee Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee to confer about getting the Social Security Bill passed by the House...
...Buzzed at authoritative rumors that His Majesty's Government have invited onetime Prime Minister David Lloyd George to confer with them on his proposal for a "British New Deal" (TIME, Dec. 24), nebulously vague until the Welshman recently reduced it to a secret memorandum at the Cabinet's request...
...Grace of God King, Emperor of India and Defender of the Faith looks almost exactly like the late Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, and has never forgiven Bolsheviks for butchering his first cousin. Last week, as Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden arrived in Moscow to confer with Joseph Stalin (see p. 19), King George again found means to show his strong feelings. Unimpressed by the fact that Bolshevik leaders were drinking his health at Moscow in champagne, an all-time high for hypocrisy, George V called to Buckingham Palace and privately knighted M. Peter Bark...