Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody knew for certain. The Dictator had traveled from Warsaw to Bordeaux, where he embarked for Madeira, in a sumptuous private car of the Polish State Railways. Knowing that Marshal Pilsudski might decide to go tearing home at any moment, his Chief of Staff ordered the car held at Bordeaux, had its doors and windows hermetically closed by ornate Polish seals...
Presently from Madeira the station master at Bordeaux received an urgent request. He must find Marshal Pilsudski's state sword. It was thought to be in the car. The station master was formally authorized in the name of Marshal Pilsudski to break the seals, rummage the car, pack up the sword if found, and despatch it by the next boat to Madeira...
Ensued a month of hectic cabling. Finally last week the sealed car was towed to Warsaw, opened. The sword was found, exactly where Marshal Pilsudski's valet had said it would be. The sword was shipped to Madeira. It arrived safely. Correspondents were permitted to learn why it was so urgently needed...
...When Marshal Pilsudski returns to the Continent," said an aide, "he will go to Rome for a meeting with Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Naturally on that occasion the Marshal will wear his state sword...
Most dramatic appearance of Marshal Pilsudski, complete with private car and sword, was in 1927, when he flabbergasted professionally peaceful Geneva. Arriving in full panoply at the League of Nations Secretariat, Poland's Dictator made for the League Council room, soon confronted Professor Augustine Valdemaras, Prime Minister of Lithuania, fixed him with a baleful glare...