Word: pilsudski
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lion. As the week opened, Poland's most terrifying "lion," Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, was brooding upon his wrongs and the decay of the fatherland, at his country estate near Warsaw...
...chief enemies (TIME, May 10, GERMANY). 2) That Poland's budget refuses to balance, this having led to the fall of the Skzrynski Cabinet (TlME, May 3). 3) That early last week the Nationalist leader Witos formed a new Cabinet and welcomed into it, as Minister of War, Pilsudski's avowed enemy, the Marquis of Malczewskis. 4) That this Nationalist Cabinet would begin the old game of oppressing the Jews and racial minorities, whereas Pilsudski and the Socialists desired to weld the country into a compact unit...
With the national applecart thus upset, each of Poland's three political tycoons (Dmowski, Right; Witos, Center; Pilsudski, Left) encouraged his followers to set him up as dictator. Correspondents cabled that "anything might happen." Interest centred in fire-eating, swashbuckling Josef Pilsudski, a former (the second) President of the Rzeczpospolita Palska. He was exiled to Siberia (1887-1892) for plotting to assassinate the Tsar; and during the World War the Germans succeeded in catching and imprisoning him. When at liberty, he delights to organize bands of "patriots," train them in gymnastic sokols (clubs) and lead them on ill-considered expeditions...
...Poles" to organize a government among themselves. Not until after the War, however, did they succeed, under the benevolent eye of the Allies, in getting the area now known as Poland officially recognized as an autonomous state by the Treaty of Versailles; and not until then did "Marshal" Josef Pilsudski attain recognition by the Powers as the first President of Poland. M. Stanislaw Wojciechowski was elected to succeed him in 1922, and continues as Prezydent of the Rzeczpospolita Polska. The Sejm Ustawodawcry (Parliament) has actually existed since 1918, when it was created by the earlier "Regency Council" and "Provisional Council...
During the war the then General Pilsudski was again imprisoned, this time in Magdeburg by the Germans. On November 14, 1918, he was freed, returned to Poland and assumed supreme power, being confirmed later by the Constituent Assembly (Sejm Ustawodawczy...