Word: pilsudski
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Don Quixote upon his sagging, sopping Rosinante was Josef Pilsudski, Marshal and Dictator of Poland, astride the 25-year-old mare on which he charged at the head of his Polish Legionnaires...
Marshal Josef Pilsudski, in his youth the shaggiest of rampant Socialists, later the organizer of armies which freed Poland during the World War, at present Dictator, Premier and War Minister of the Polish Republic, began seriously to consider last week whether a crown would not well become his politically feverish brow...
From his sufficiently regal abode, the Belvedere Palace, Pilsudski decided to amuse himself a little longer by playing cat and mice with the disorganized and virtually impotent Sejm (Parliament...
With playful malice he issued a decree that all members of the Sejm must stand during the reading of whatever proclamations he may send to them. The Deputies immediately expressed indignation, and indicated their refusal to ratify the decree unless Marshal Pilsudski would agree to come and read his own proclamation standing before them. Tiger cat Pilsudski, no doubt secretly intrigued by the defiance of his mice, turned the incident into high comedy by commanding the First Lancers Regiment to march twice around the Parliament Building in full war regalia. Having thus shown his physical encirclement of and contempt...
Since Alexander sighed-if he ever did-for more worlds to conquer, moralists have delighted to croak of heroes able td master their enemies but not themselves. Such a clay-footed hero seemed to have appeared in Poland when Marshal Josef Pilsudski seized the Government (TIME, May 24). Hesitant, irresolute, he could not bring himself to accept the responsibility either of ruling Poland as a dictator or of heading the State as Premier. Instead he temporized, forced the Sejm to elect one Ignatz Moscicld President of Poland and to confirm the puppet Cabinet of Premier Bartel. Since then Marshal Pilsudski...