Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome does, so does Warsaw. Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski is remarkably like Dictator Benito Mussolini, except that he is lazier, more temperamental. II Duce bothers to be Premier of Italy. Marshal Pilsudski will not bother often to be Premier of Poland. Il Duce appoints and demotes his henchmen to & from offices as Governor of Rome, taking care that no man holds power too long. Last week it was time for Dictator Pilsudski to demote from the office of Premier of Poland Col. Walery Slawek and appoint in his stead Col. Alexander Prystor...
...Marshal Pilsudski always remains Minister of War, he always feels that a Colonel as Premier is "under his orders" in a military sense. Most candidly Marshal Pilsudski has said...
Prystor is at times too intense, too hard even for Pilsudski. There is the story of a Pole, suddenly promoted to high office, who exclaimed to the Marshal in genuine surprise...
...Well keep quiet about it.'' growled the gruff old Marshal with a twinkle. "Neither am I a Pilsudskist, but Prystor is sitting in the next room. Don't let him hear...
...Nanking known to President Hoover. Mr. Chen is now back in Canton exactly where he started in 1926. He even holds the same office, Foreign Minister. He has broken with the Chinese whom President Hoover knows as President of China and whose Government is at Nanking, wasp- waisted Marshal Chiang Kaishek. Last week Mr. Chen said of Marshal Chiang: "He has a medieval mind. He has begun to think of China as his personal property. He wants to be Emperor of China...