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Marshal Josef Pilsudski, having overthrown the Polish Government by violence (TIME, May 24) and then quixotically refused to accept a higher office than his beloved Ministry of War (TIME, May 31), became last week a living yet piquantly legendary hero about whom "human interest" fabliaux were woven without stint and printed beneath lavish headlines...
...France the national theatre (Comedie Francaise) is so intimately connected with the government that a Premier might well be overthrown upon the issue of his Cabinet's dramatic policy. Last week the Chamber gave Premier Briand a vote of confidence, 350 to 152, in support of the withdrawal from the Comedie's repertoire of La Carcasse, a new play which has been widely denounced as "insulting to the soldiers of France." The plot featured adultery by a French general's wife, embezzlement by his soldier...
...What government might be overthrown by its dramatic policy...
Georgia. Atlanta, the onetime Imperial City of the Klan, is nearly deserted so far as the Klan is concerned. The leadership of the Klan was lost when the Simmons and Clarke dynasty was overthrown by the Texan dynasty of Hiram Wesley Evans. The palace is deserted or nearly so, and the home it gave to Simmons was sold when he went forth to found the Knights of the Flaming Sword. Clarke has founded the anti-evolution society?the Supreme Kingdom (TIME, Feb. 1, EDUCATION). No more are great national meetings held in Atlanta. It still is powerful in small cities...
...that the greatest fiscal experts in France disagreed by hundreds of thousands of francs as to what revenue the resulting bill would produce. None the less, the Deputies passed it and gave Premier Briand a vote of confidence, 258 to 145?i.e., with over 100 abstentions, enough to have overthrown the Premier if even half the abstentees had voted against him. Finally, the Chamber voted itself a much needed recess...