Word: pilsudski
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geneva hurried the tired statesmen who gather periodically 'round a green-topped horseshoe table and become the Council of the League of Nations. Looming, last week, for their consideration were the embroiled affairs of two minor dictators: Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, and Prime Minister Josef Pilsudski, erratic Pole. Status Quo. Marshal Pilsudski insisted, last week in Warsaw, that he had positive knowledge of recent Lithuanian mobilization against Poland. Commenting to flabbergasted reporters, he charged that Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania is a "man whose proper home is an insane asylum . . . absolutely unaccountable for his acts ... a 'superpatriot...
Notably the district of Vilna, birthplace of Marshal Pilsudski, changed hands between Lithuania and Poland no less than five times in the year 1920. Eventually Vilna was seized with great firmness by the Polish General Zeligovski (Oct. 9, 1920), and this fait accompli was recognized by the Council of Ambassadors (TIME, March 31, 1923). Since 1920, however, both countries have remained in a nominal "state of war," and quarrels on every possible minor issue have been incessant...
Dictator Josef Pilsudski let it be known that next month he would travel south, to Italy, to see his old friend Pope Pius XI, onetime (1919-21) Papal Nuncio at Warsaw, and also to see Dictator Benito Mussolini, whom he admires...
...navy blue cover there appeared not a portrait of Premier Dictator Joseph Pilsudski, or of President Ignatz Moscicki, or of Ignatz Paderewski, or Joseph Conrad, or Tadeusz Andzrezej Bonawentura Kosciuszko but an action picture of Gilda Gray.* "Polish dancer." Poles, incensed, took umbrage at such terpsichorean levity in their favorite periodical...
...Cowards!" yelled the Socialists to the assembled Pilsudski Ministers...