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That strutting player whom many a Pole admires, Dictator-Marshal Josef Pilsudski, played again last week the now famous role which he enacts whenever the Sejm (Parliament) attempts to disobey...
...Marshal is ill and will see no one," said a servant, closing the door firmly in the Vice Premier's face. As usual, Josef Pilsudski, sly possum, was playing dead. Five minutes later he received an old friend, Minister of Posts Medzinski. Together they arranged the morrow's little melodrama...
Suddenly?like the door of a jack-in-the-box?the heavy portal of the Sejm flies open. The Josef-in-the-box stands there, surrounded by his Cabinet. They are in formal dress, ablaze with orders. The Marshal, towering and black-browed, wears only his field uniform, wrinkled, unadorned...
When this scene had played to its end last week, pandemonium broke loose. Opposition Deputies cursed one another for not voting down the bill. Beards bristled, tongues wagged. How ever had it all happened, asked the Deputies, amazed at themselves? The explanation seemed to be that Josef Pilsudski knows his Poland. From the new budget he will derive alarmingly great sums to spend upon his special toy, the army...
...sweeper of floors, a scrubber of steps. She burned everything without opening an envelope. Half of them were begging letters, too; boasts from dressmakers, stores offering credit, lawyers offering advice. . . . Marie Drazdorf spent some of her savings for a new suit for her boy, but she told her man, Josef Raff, to keep on working like the steady man he was. They would wait for the fortune to come in July. Then she would give some money to Butcher Bachmann, who had been kind when she had her baby. Then they would see what they would do. ... Yes, Marie Drazdorf...