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...dictator to another Josef Stalin sent last week to Josef Pilsudski an extraordinary personal gift. It comprised a bulky sheaf of time-worn documents Every one of them damned the present Dictator of Poland as a radical, conspirator, firebrand, socialist, fake-madman and terrorist. This present Dictator Stalin had carefully gathered from the files of the Imperial Russian Secret Police When he received the documents on his farm near Vilna last week Dictator Pilsudski growled gruff delight, shut himself up in his study to devour item after item...
Item: 1887, the youth Josef Pilsudski nicknamed "Ziuk" by his fellow students at the University of Kharkhov, was arrested and charged with complicity in an abortive plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. Among leaders of the plot who were hanged was the elder brother of Nikolai Lenin. Though nothing could be proved against Prisoner Pilsudski, he was sentenced to five years exile in Siberia Last week Dictator Pilsudski remembered that in Siberia he was well treated by sympathetic guards, was even permitted to go hunting with a double-barreled shotgun...
Item: 1892. the "hardened conspirator" Josef Pilsudski helped found the Polish Socialist Party on Russian soil and became one of its "desperate activists...
Worker") on a hand press which was frequently moved from hideaway to hideaway, Editor & Publisher Pilsudski was arrested and placed in the dread "Pavilion X" of the Warsaw Citadel. Item: 1901, unable to escape from "Pavilion X," Prisoner Pilsudski brilliantly feigned madness and was transferred to St. Nicholas Hospital...
...been born on soil now part of the Soviet Union, famed August Zaleski. "The Briand of the North," then Foreign Minister of Poland. Almost furtively the two statesmen laid the basis of a diplomatic rapprochement, perhaps not desired at that time by either Dictator Stalin or Dictator Pilsudski. Last year M. Zaleski was replaced by Foreign Minister Beck, a "Pilsudski Colonel," reputed a swashbuckler. Momentarily the Polish-Russian rapprochement seemed to go glimmering. But Adolf Hitler, with his tirades against Marxism and his itch to have back the Polish Corridor, played straight into Comrade Litvinov's hands. Last week...