Word: pilsudski
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Definitely convalescent last week was the Lord Privy Seal, spruce young Captain Anthony Eden, who was put to bed with "heart strain" after his round of diplomatic fencing bouts with Hitler, Stalin and Pilsudski (TIME, April 1 et seq.). Chirped a glib, anonymous political correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "They refer to 'heart strain'. . . . The actual trouble, I understand, is thrombosis" [clogging of an artery...
Last week the "Walrus of Warsaw,' shrewd and sturdy old Marshal Josef Pilsudski, became the first of Europe's crop of post-War dictators to confer full and sweeping powers on his puppet...
...decade and more beloved Marshal Pilsudski has refused to be President, skulking happily in his War Ministry, refusing to confer with politicians, making occasional picturesque and unprintable speeches to the delighted rabble, ruling Poland as he pleases with the excuse, "Parliament is unfit to rule. Parliament is a prostitute...
...other airplane, sent especially from London to Prague last week, picked up at the Czechoslovak capital a handsome but sadly wilted young Englishman for whom the Empire has had high hopes. Two weeks of high pressure contacts with three dictators - Hitler, Stalin - and Pilsudski-had definitely proved too much for Captain Anthony Eden, George V's Lord Privy Seal...
...Captain Eden's train drew in, the Polish Foreign Office was defining Marshal Pilsudski's policy as one of "being able to take care of ourselves." The gruff old Dictator who refuses to be President and insists on being War Minister believes, really, in nothing but the sword. To him, the spokesman implied, it will be difficult for a suave young Etonian on the make to sell the Stalin-endorsed, Hitler-rebuffed Eastern Locarno Pact...