Word: pilsudski
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There have been recent signs of the Polish Sejm (Parliament) attempting to oust Dictator Josef Pilsudski...
...Polish political situation is somewhat unusual. The President (pedagogic Professor Ignatz Moscicki) is the impotent puppet of Josef Pilsudski, Premier, Minister of War & Marshal of Poland, who is actually the law. Although he appears in the Sejm on important occasions (such as political crises, when he dons his much-worn military uniform to terrify his opponents), he leaves much governmental business to another puppet: Vice Premier & Minister of Religion & Education, Professor Kazimierz Bartel...
Last week the Socialists began one of their periodical moves to eliminate the dread Pilsudski. But the hulking, burly, stern-eyed Marshal, without waiting to don his uniform, rushed from his summer home near Vilna to the capital, and roared: "I will not tolerate these tendencies of the Sejm to kick over the traces...
...hundred U. S. citizens of Polish blood arrived in Warsaw last week and were received in audience by the "National Hero" and "Dictator" Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Towering and eccentric, the Marshal showed to his visitors a most amiable side of his often petulant and arbitrary character. Perhaps he was touched when one of the pilgrims, Mile. Janusewska, an especially attractive young woman, sank weeping at his feet, overcome at the moment when she was supposed to have made a little speech accompanying the presentation of a handsome gold-handled sabre...
...trice the powerful right arm of Marshal Pilsudski had raised up Mile. Janusewska. Having saluted her with respectful gallantry, he turned to the other pilgrims. "I myself will finish the beautiful speech of this young lady. I know that you greet me in the name of all Polish-Americans. I welcome you here and I ask you to kiss all your friends, when you return, both Polish and American, in behalf of the land of Poland...