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Since 1920 the city of Vilna hard by birthplace of the late great Dictator of Poland, Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, has in fact been part of Poland. However, Article I of the constitution of Lithuania has continued to declare that the capital of Lithuania is Vilna...
Since the death of Poland's Marshal Joseph Pilsudski there has been no picturesque, magnetic figure in Eastern Europe to compare with Hungary's Admiral Nicholas Horthy. He lives with quarterdeck simplicity in a small palace on the heights of Buda overlooking Pest, rules with the title of "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary," gives the most brilliant balls in Europe in the Habsburg Palace across the way from his own, but never sleeps on the premises of the King and Emperor who does not exist in fact, although by legitimate inheritance the throne...
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...
...last breath the blustering old Dictator two years ago placed his benediction on bush-browed Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Army, gave him to the nation as his successor. Lacking the personal magnetism of the Old Marshal, the landscape-painting Marshal makes a poor Dictator. Using Pilsudski's coffin as his chief stock-in-trade, soft-spoken Smigly-Rydz has appealed in vain for all factions to heed the Old Marshal's wish for a unified Poland...
Early in March, Smigly-Rydz had his political tool, bald-headed Colonel Adam Koc (pronounced kotz) 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...