Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peasants' delight he urged immediate elections, the abolition of concentration camps and the return from exile in Czechoslovakia of Wincenty Witos, one-time Premier, founder and head of the Peasant Party...
Rightist army leaders, the "Colonels' clique" of Pilsudski's regime, led by Colonels Valerian Slawek, Alexander Prystor, regard the "national unity" movement as too liberal. Two months ago, reactionaries, fearing Witos at the head of a strong Peasant Party, hired Count Wojceich Bieganek to assassinate Koc. The Count crouched outside the French windows of Koc's suburban Warsaw villa, but the bomb went off prematurely, blew him to bits...
Professed purpose of the peasant action was to protest the "dictatorial and bureaucratic system," to inaugurate a genuine democracy. Its immediate purpose was to force Marshal Smigly-Rydz to bring back to Poland Wincenty Witos, founder and head of the Peasant Party. Witos, who fled to Czechoslovakia to escape sentence inflicted by Pilsudski's courts for opposition in the 1930 election, is the peasants' living martyr...
...merge the Pilsudski Legionnaires with a few scattered middleclass, youth, workers' groups into a nucleus with the sonorous title "Camp of National Unity." Koc, realizing that "national unity" was an empty formula without support of two large groups-the National Democrats (made up of conservative nationalists) and the peasants- suggested to his political boss that concessions be made to induce one or both groups to join the united front. Price for peasant support was the return of Witos...
Twenty years later Claude has settled down as the wife of a farmer. Husband Ernest, though he leads a peasant's hard life, is no peasant. He dreams only of making enough money to buy back the family chateau, restore its ruins. As farm & family chores rub the bloom off Claude's romance, she takes to her memories for consolation, in spare moments begins to scribble in a copy book. By the time she has joined the past to the present she has filled and destroyed three little books, has lost the desire to fill any more...