Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polish Army had known it for weeks, so had the Cabinet, the secret police. Government plans had been drawn up and every preparation made. Yet not until it was all over did the world know that Poland's most powerful son, the shaggy-browed old walrus, Marshal Josef Pilsudski had died of cancer of the stomach and liver. At 9 p. m. a State reception for the French Ambassador was suddenly canceled. Police patrols that already had their orders moved out to strategic street corners. Every theatre, cafe and dance hall in Warsaw was closed, indefinitely. Cabinet Ministers hustled...
Poland, a nation who has learned how to suffer since at least the eighteenth century, knows today that her troubles have just begun. When the body of Marshal Pilsudski has been laid in Wawel Castle beside his nation's heroes, Poles will be forced to put aside their black crepe and face the gloomiest of realities. Before them is the acid test of dictatorship: the question of what to do when a state which has been raised upon the personality of one man finds that he is gone. If history means anything, the autocracy has one of two fates...
...attractions. As heir to the Throne, Edward of Wales drove out smartly with a cavalcade of Life Guards, his grave aunt, Queen Maud of Norway, at his side and opposite the Duke of Gloucester. As the grand procession climax, came an open landau with King George as a Field Marshal looking as the late great French President Raymond Poincare once described him: "Le Roi est radieux!" Definitely radiant at his side was Queen Mary in a gown of hydrangea pink silk net, embroidered with lace, and worn over a slip of dazzling silver cloth, the whole enhanced by a necklace...
Since Warsaw promptly interprets any major political development in terms of the emotions of Poland's beloved Dictator, gruff, walrus-mustached Marshal Josef Pilsudski, major interest was aroused by a remark dropped by one of the Marshal's aides: "Sentimental reasons,among others, prompt him to make peace with Lithuania. His old mother, whom he loved with passionate devotion and gratitude, lies buried on Lithuanian soil. He himself grows old and he cannot visit her grave so long as the Polish-Lithuanian frontier remains closed and relations continue strained...
...sheer distortion of plain words out of their plain meaning this could scarcely be surpassed, and no such feat was attempted in Warsaw by Colonel Slawek. What he has done is to make a tolerably neat system out of the loose ends of Marshal Pilsudski's erratic and unsystematic but popular and effective Military Dictatorship...