Word: pilsudski
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...nation's confidence in law has been shaken and Parliament has been silenced," declared a manifesto adopted unanimously by the Cracow mass meeting. "For four years the will of the Dictator, Marshal Pilsudski, has been imposed upon succeeding Cabinets and upon the President himself. . . . The nation must mobilize in defense of Freedom. . . . Ignatz Moscicki should resign...
Ignatz Moscicki (who was for a time a Swiss citizen and therefore changed his Polish "Ignacy" to "Ignatz") did not re-sign last week, and walrus-whiskered, swashbuckling, often eccentric Marshal Josef Pilsudski continued morosely to dictate. About once a year he makes some striking public utterance, and for the past two years it has been a variant of his celebrated saying...
Nevertheless under Dictator Pilsudski and copiously supplied with U. S. loans Poland is greatly prospering, pushing rapidly such typically Polish industries as coal, metals, textiles...
...Pilsudski for prime minister looked like a good idea to millions of Poles last week, but parliament (tired of being called something else beginning with a ''P") rebelled. President Mosciki was convinced by party leaders that Jan Pilsudski as Prime Minister could not get the necessary vote of confidence. Jan became convinced too. It was said in Warsaw that Jan convinced snorting Josef...
Eventually President Ignatz Mosciki asked Colonel Walery Slawek, "one of the Pilsudski colonels," to try and form a government. "I should call Walery Slawek a romantic figure," wired a native Polish correspondent, replying to a query from his U. S. editor. "He took part with Marshal Pilsudski in various anti-Russian enterprises before the War, during one of which his face was disfigured by the premature explosion of a bomb...