Word: pilsudski
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...cars to provide the mobility that Polish campaigns demanded. Receiving equivalent rank in the Polish army, the U. S. pilots were paid on the same basis as the Poles. First casualty occurred when Lieut. Graves flew the wings off his Albatross during a review for bushy-browed Marshal Pilsudski, plummeted to his death in the midst of Lwow...
...will go to war the moment any nation menaces her corridor to the sea. The greatest living Pole restated this axiom of his nation in Manhattan last week. Not for 13 years has Ignace Jan Paderewski been Premier of Poland. He and Poland's present Dictator, eccentric Marshal Pilsudski, are on barely civil terms. But every Pole backed Pianist Paderewski when he exclaimed...
...small Zdzislaw was only mildly interested in the theatre. He used to practice drawing caricatures by making faces at himself in a mirror. He learned much more about the human face by working for a time as a barber. During the War he enlisted in crop-headed Marshal Joseph Pilsudski's French-subsidized Polish Legion, was wounded, mentioned in despatches, thrice taken prisoner. In 1919 he gained his first fame as a caricaturist with a pictorial biography of his former commander. European editors, unable to read the text, erroneously decided it was anti-Pilsudski in intent. Three years...
...this gold, declared the Bankers' Association of Poland in a manifesto to the public, was becoming "sterilized" in Polish pockets, socks and safety deposit boxes-a dreadful thing to have happen. When Poles continued doggedly to buy and hoard gold, the Bankers' Association warned Finance Minister Jan Pilsudski (brother of Dictator Josef) that there was but one thing to do: the State must ban gold imports into Poland by any individual or bank except the Bank of Poland...
...nothing in particular to do with Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a great deal to do with Ignace Paderewski. It was there that he landed from a British warship in 1919 while Germans still held the town, to become Poland's first Premier. Poznan has always been a Paderewski, anti-Pilsudski bailiwick. The Wilson unveiling resolved itself into a grand Paderewski jamboree. Dictator Pilsudski and Pianist Paderewski (officially tending his sick wife in Switzerland) both considered it wise to absent themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited. At the last minute, lest the Paderewskites should stage some really serious...