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...Geneva hurried the tired statesmen who gather periodically 'round a green-topped horseshoe table and become the Council of the League of Nations. Looming, last week, for their consideration were the embroiled affairs of two minor dictators: Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, and Prime Minister Josef Pilsudski, erratic Pole. Status Quo. Marshal Pilsudski insisted, last week in Warsaw, that he had positive knowledge of recent Lithuanian mobilization against Poland. Commenting to flabbergasted reporters, he charged that Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania is a "man whose proper home is an insane asylum . . . absolutely unaccountable for his acts ... a 'superpatriot...
Dictator Josef Pilsudski let it be known that next month he would travel south, to Italy, to see his old friend Pope Pius XI, onetime (1919-21) Papal Nuncio at Warsaw, and also to see Dictator Benito Mussolini, whom he admires...
...navy blue cover there appeared not a portrait of Premier Dictator Joseph Pilsudski, or of President Ignatz Moscicki, or of Ignatz Paderewski, or Joseph Conrad, or Tadeusz Andzrezej Bonawentura Kosciuszko but an action picture of Gilda Gray.* "Polish dancer." Poles, incensed, took umbrage at such terpsichorean levity in their favorite periodical...
...Socialists (with three Peasant parties, two Labor parties and a Communist party) considerably outnumber the Pilsudski forces. They introduced a number of motions forbidden by Dictator Pilsudski, chief of which was a motion of lack of confidence in him. Had they succeeded in winning the motion, it would doubtless have done them no good; for Dictators have an irritating habit of putting themselves above the law. Still, it would have done Pilsudski small good had he been forced to ride roughshod over their veto. To avoid all such unpleasantness, he issued a decree closing the Sejm...
...Cowards!" yelled the Socialists to the assembled Pilsudski Ministers...