Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George Sidney Clive, D. S. 0. bounced about. There was a second collision near the corner by the Marble Arch with an evil-smelling sweeper's cart, wrenching a wheel off the coach. Shaken but uninjured the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps descended from his rehearsal...
Last week the "Walrus of Warsaw,' shrewd and sturdy old Marshal Josef Pilsudski, became the first of Europe's crop of post-War dictators to confer full and sweeping powers on his puppet...
...decade and more beloved Marshal Pilsudski has refused to be President, skulking happily in his War Ministry, refusing to confer with politicians, making occasional picturesque and unprintable speeches to the delighted rabble, ruling Poland as he pleases with the excuse, "Parliament is unfit to rule. Parliament is a prostitute...
Pilsudski's puppet President throughout has been that great Polish scientist, Professor Ignatz Moscicki. When the old "Walrus" was wheezing with asthma last year, the President invented a device for pepping up the air breathed by the Dictator in his suburban Belvidere Palace. Last week the grim old Marshal threw a cordon of his fanatically loyal troops around the President's palace, shooed into it the Cabinet, Diet and Senate and provided Professor Moscicki with pen & ink. Scratch, scratch the puppet President signed a new Constitution (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933) which sweeps into the dustbin every vestige...
...Elitarism" is the contribution to political science of Colonel Walery Slawek, spur-clinking Premier and close crony of the Marshal. Last week Colonel Slawek was hailed as "Father of the Polish Constitution." As a bow to Democracy it retains Poland's democratically elected Chamber but strips it of power by giving the President an absolute veto. The Senate is replaced by "The Assembly of Elders," one-third appointed by the President, the other two-thirds by Poland's new official Elite, namely males who have won either of two war decorations, the Virtuti Militari Order or the Independence...