Word: europejska
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...soon for any man to know the answer to any of these but one thing was certain. For the next few months at least Poland will be run by the same little group of old campaign cronies who used to meet night after night at the swank Cafe Europejska for champagne and unofficial Cabinet meetings, the "Pilsudski Colonels...
...Assembly of Elders. One third are appointed by the President, two thirds are elected by a group known as the Elite: males who have won either of two high Polish military decorations. The Elders, in other words, are the Elite who are the old friends of the Cafe Europejska, the Colonels. The President in theory can dismiss them. The Colonels knew that never, never would President Moscicki dream of such a thing, and they alone have the power to force the election of his successor...
...Pilsudski Colonels used to dine nightly at the Cafe Europejska, most fashionable in Warsaw. There, amid popping champagne corks, loud Polish music and exciting Polish women, they made the crazy-quilt politics of Poland. In 1929, however, so many "Pilsudski Colonels" were called to onerous tasks of Government that cafe politics have been on the wane. Never a very good cafe politician was small, stern, intensely militant (although sartorially perfect) Col. Alexander Prystor...
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