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When Housepainter Adolf Hitler was a Gefreiter (lance corporal) in the German army during the War, Carpenter Ignatz Westenkirchner was a private in his squad. Many an afternoon Carpenter Ignatz cleaned his mess kit and read and reread his shirt while Housepainter Adolf talked of the things he was going to do later...
Smart Poles realize that non-Poles, broadly speaking, have never heard the name of that worthy, honest, unassuming man, President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland. On the other hand the world has heard too much about the eccentricities (slanderously said "to amount to madness") of the great Polish soldier-statesman whom only Poles are temperamentally equipped to obey and understand. Marshal Josef Pilsudski. A dictator with a small "d," he refuses to be President, detests the Premiership, publicly calls the Polish Parliament a prostitute when he can think of no fouler epithet and rules Poland through a Cabinet clique called...
...Milwaukee Ignatz Rewolinski, 250-Ib. policeman, was pushed through a window of a county food station, slightly cut, when a noonday breadline began to riot. Arrests...
...Atlantic under the Polish Flag. Simultaneously, Warsaw was host to the East European Agrarian Conference. These commendable commercial pursuits, however, were vastly overshadowed by the political activities of blustering, oath-some Dictator Josef Pilsudski. Last April all the Dictator's shouting and all of his men-including President Ignatz Moscicki-could not prevail upon Parliament to make his brother Jan Prime Minister (TIME, April 7). The best Dictator Pilsudski could do was to get the job for one of his "colonels," Valerian Slavek. Last week he grew weary of eternal bickering and backbiting from Parliament, principally because its parties...
...Ignatz Moscicki (who was for a time a Swiss citizen and therefore changed his Polish "Ignacy" to "Ignatz") did not re-sign last week, and walrus-whiskered, swashbuckling, often eccentric Marshal Josef Pilsudski continued morosely to dictate. About once a year he makes some striking public utterance, and for the past two years it has been a variant of his celebrated saying...