Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guards stood at the door of the Courtroom keeping crowds of tourists at bay in the corridors. Newshawks and those with passes entered the Courtroom through the adjoining marshal's office. At the counsel table sat Donald Richberg and Solicitor General Stanley Reed who had argued the test case, both in fine fettle...
...himself Foreign Minister of Great Britain. Minister Laval had scarcely had a good night's sleep for a month. The clatter of railway wheels rang ceaselessly in his ears. He had just traveled from Paris to Warsaw, to Moscow, back to Warsaw and Cracow for the funeral of Marshal Pilsudski, through Berlin back to Paris and now to Geneva. The French franc, the French Government, Laval's political future were trembling in the balance (see p. 19). Yet he desired nothing so much at the moment as 24 hours...
...bayonets, the flash of many flags, and then silently over the turf came the entire army of Poland. Every general of division, every colonel of every regiment was there marching beside his regimental colors and a platoon of his own men. Set apart at the very end was Marshal Pilsudski's own cavalry regiment. Eyes snapped right, flags dipped, and the muffled drums rolled, there was no other sound. Only when the parade was over did an army band mournfully play the national anthem, "Jeszcse Polska Nie Zginela" and follow it with "We, the First Brigade," the special hymn...
...consisted of a locomotive, four coaches with curtained windows and in the centre an ordinary flat car striped black & blue, the colors of the Polish Military Cross. Floodlights from either end were focussed on the gun carriage, the red-&-white draped coffin, the sword, baton and cap of the Marshal. At every little station the train stopped for a few moments. All along the line candles burned in every farmhouse window and bonfires flickered along the distant hills. At every crossing stood groups of peasants holding guttering torches of rag-wrapped branches...
Poland's Westminster Abbey is the cathedral of Wawel Castle. Here lie buried Poland's ancient kings and heroes: John Sobieski who saved Vienna and Europe from the Turks in 1683; Kosciuszko, Champion of Liberty; Prince Poniatowski. President Moscicki pronounced the last eulogy and the body of Marshal Pilsudski, in a silver coffin, was laid to rest beside them. With much simpler ceremonies Marshal Pilsudski's heart will be buried by his mother's grave at Vilna. To capture Vilna, Marshal Pilsudski sent Poland to war in 1920, and his brain will go to the University...