Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before the death of beloved Marshal Josef Pilsudski, Poland's great Dictator gave his country a new Constitution, vested unique-powers in the modest scientist who is President of Poland, Dr. Ignacy Moscicki (TIME, May 6). Last week official translations of the new Constitution were released abroad by Polish diplomats...
...Marshal, having come to believe that Dictator Mussolini's so-called "Corporative State" represents progress, introduced its spirit into Poland's new Constitution thus, Article LXXVII: "To control the financial activities of the State and of institutions of a legally public status; to examine the State fiscal accounts; and to submit annual recommendations to the Sejm, for release to the Government, there is established the Supreme Chamber of Control based on the principles of corporative membership and the independence of its members. The Supreme Chamber of Control is independent of the Cabinet. The President of the Republic appoints...
...Moreover the President orders Polish general elections and nominates one of the candidates who may succeed himself as President, the electoral machinery being so rigged that a determined President can virtually control the choice of his successor. Saddled with such awful responsibilities, more suitable to a national hero like Marshal Pilsudski than to Poles of lesser clay, the President must swear this great oath...
...Warsaw last week Premier Walery Slawek and the rest of that tight little clique known as the "Pilsudski Colonels" were still running Poland while newly omnipotent President Moscicki continued to accept the Army's advice as he always did during the lifetime of the Marshal. Fusty, scraggle-bearded Brother Jan Pilsudski has been installed as a sort of mascot Minister of War. Dictator Pilsudski's successor in the Inspector Generalship, key Army post which the old Marshal always held, now is masterful, magnetic General Edward Rydz-Smigly, like the late Dictator a hero of Poland...
...extent developed and colonized. Economically, Paraguay is no better off than Bolivia; both are financially exhausted. Simon Patiño's mine stocks were up last week. And last week in Asuncion there was earnest talk of rewarding Paraguay's able General Estigarribia with the rank of Marshal, a title last held by the great Tyrant López, as well as a life income of 1,500 gold pesos and his regular pay as a General...