Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second came after Laval left Moscow, arrived at Warsaw to represent France at the funeral services for the late great Marshal Pilsudski, who had been rated Germany's best friend in Poland (see p. 23). There transpired the amazing scene of Germany's pompous Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring trotting after Laval. He would, he hinted, like to talk. Woodchuckish M. Laval pretended not to understand. General Göring then politely requested a conversation, which M. Laval granted at the Air Minister's hotel, for three hours. Loquacious Göring had nothing...
Ending the Solemn Requiem Mass, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, Archbishop of Warsaw, faced the nave, cried: "We herewith take a solemn oath to love our motherland as only you, Marshal Pilsudski, loved...
...distinguished audience that the Cardinal had before him. Representing Germany was plump Hermann Wilhelm Göring and a group of Nazi generals. Marshal Pétain and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France were there. Because U. S. Ambassador Cudahy was on vacation, busy, bald William C. Bullitt flew from Moscow to represent the U. S. The Earl of Cavan, a field marshal in the British Army, represented George...
...Mokotow airport on the outskirts of the city there is a high turf bank from which twice every year Marshal Pilsudski used to review his troops. His coffin was brought to that bank. Veterans of the old Pilsudski legions kept back the crowds. Four squadrons of army planes flying in formation droned back & forth...
...Died. Marshal Josef Pilsudski, 67, Dictator of Poland; of cancer; in Warsaw...