Word: pilsudski
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Deputy Bartel................... Premier and Railways Marshal Pilsudski..................War M. August Zaleski (Temporarily)....Foreign Affairs General Mlodzianowski..............Interior M. Czechowicz......................Finance M. Jurkiewicz......................Labor M. Raczynski.......................Agriculture M. Hippolyte Gliwic................Commerce Professor Mikolowski-Pomorski......Education M. Broniewski......................Public Works Professor Wenceslos Mokowski.......Justice...
...Lwow Polytechnical Institute. He won fame by his efficient superintendence of Poland's railway mobilization against the Soviets' attempted invasion six years ago. Last week he announced: 1) The Cabinet will at once convoke the National Assembly, which will elect a new President who must be acceptable to Marshal Pilsudski. 2) The Cabinet will then resign, and the President will name a new Premier. 3) Thereafter Parliament will be prorogued by executive decree until a new general election can be held...
Presidential Candidates. After much urging Marhsal Pilsudski finally accepted the Socialist candidacy. His personal friend and aide, Colonel Winiawa Delugosewski, discussed with correspondents the possibility that the Marshal might be set up as King or Dictator by his almost fanatically loyal followers. Finally the Colonel said: "He will not take the dictatorship, but personally I wish he would...
Rival Government? At Posen, General Haller, organizer of the Polish Legion in the U. S. during the World War, assembled some 10,000 troops, which started to march on Warsaw early in the week to overthrow Pilsudski. Late despatches reported that this expedition had been abandoned, that General Haller had been feted and decked with flowers by Posenites, who were encouraging him to set up a rival government of Poland with their city as its capital...