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...Pilsudski, spruce, sleek-bearded, is the little brother of big Marshal Josef Pilsudski, walrus-mustached Dictator. Recently Col. Jan was made Finance Minister (TIME, June 8) and people wondered what he would do-for Col. Jan had had no previous fiscal experience whatever...
...office of Premier is a hard and wearing position. No man should hold it for more than six months." Col. Walery Slawek, before his demotion last week, had been Premier since November last while Dictator Pilsudski serenely vacationed in Madeira, positive of his grip on power (TIME, March 2). Who are the "Pilsudski Colonels"? Who is Prystor, the new Premier...
...Pilsudski Colonels used to dine nightly at the Cafe Europejska, most fashionable in Warsaw. There, amid popping champagne corks, loud Polish music and exciting Polish women, they made the crazy-quilt politics of Poland. In 1929, however, so many "Pilsudski Colonels" were called to onerous tasks of Government that cafe politics have been on the wane. Never a very good cafe politician was small, stern, intensely militant (although sartorially perfect) Col. Alexander Prystor...
Prystor is at times too intense, too hard even for Pilsudski. There is the story of a Pole, suddenly promoted to high office, who exclaimed to the Marshal in genuine surprise...
...Walery Slawek resigned last week was that his Finance Minister, Col. Ignace Matuszewski, "wished to resign." In the Slawek Cabinet Col. Prystor was Minister of Industry & Commerce, a subject with which he was notoriously unacquainted. Upon stepping to Poland's helm last week Premier Prystor reappointed Joseph Pilsudski Minister of War, appointed Jan Pilsudski (brother) Minister of Finance. The former Minister of Finance, Col. Matuszewski who so conveniently "wanted to resign," will be appointed by Col. Prystor as Polish Minister to the Court of St. James's, according to Warsaw gossip last week...