Word: josef
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are Polish names which have significance in contemporary U. S. life: Paul Muni in Hollywood; Baton-wielders Stokowski, Rodzinski; Singers Kiepura, Ganna Walska; Pianist Josef Hofmann; Engineers Pawlowski, Modjeski; Economist Mizwa; Editor Pialkowicz...
...expects to remove to a small inexpensive provincial town "somewhere in Normandy." Meanwhile the Government stayed at the tiny Danube Hotel, worked last week from 7 a. m. right around the clock to 3 a. m., employed Poet Jan Lehon as its Press Officer. In London arrived Mme Josef Pilsudski, widow of the late great Marshal, "the Father of Modern Poland" whom Adolf Hitler professes to respect. Snapped the Widow Pilsudski last week: "No one believes Hitler's speeches of good will. That man pays lip homage to my husband and surveys around him the destruction of the Marshal...
After the review Herr Hitler reverently visited Belvedere Palace, where the great Josef Pilsudski lived and died. Back at the airport Hitler proved that what had made him thoughtful had not made him either remorseful or humble-or accurate. "Gentlemen," he said to a cluster of reporters, "you have seen for yourselves what criminal folly it was to try to defend this city in a military way, and how that defense collapsed after only two days. I only wish certain statesmen in other countries who seem to want to turn the whole of Western Europe into such a shambles...
...railway station at Cernauti, Rumania, onetime outpost of German culture in the East, now a hurtling trade centre at the base of the Carpathian Mountains. Rolling hills in the background, overshadowed by the black mass of a 3,000-ft. peak; the Prut River flowing nearby. Enter Colonel Josef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland. No longer the same man as in Act I and II, the Colonel is haggard, sleepless; the sardonic elegance that marked his appearance has vanished. With him is Marshal Smigly-Rydz, Commander in Chief of the Polish Armies, equally haggard, desperate. The two men approach, talking...
...responsible rulers of one of Europe's major powers- its sixth in population and area. Proud men, independent and successful, they had reason to be proud. Philosophical Smigly-Rydz, shy and softspoken, had built Poland's Army until it included 1,500,000 trained reserves; deft Josef Beck, untroubled by accusations of lack of scruples, had maneuvered Poland successfully for years despite her precarious international position; had seen Poland grow from a small Baltic State to a power that had to be reckoned with in every ministry in Europe. Then one dawn over the Polish village of Puck...