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...Poland. The Government of Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski flatly refused last week, a demand by the Soviet Government that one of its agents be allowed to participate at the trial in Warsaw of Boris Kovenko, the confessed assassin of M. Vojkov. How dared small Poland thus flout great Russia...
Marshal Josef Pilsudski...
When he read this telegram, Marshal Pilsudski, Dictator, Premier, War Minister and national hero, sprang up, touched, flattered, to telephone the aged General Buchopicki full permission to die with the consent of his old commander. Telephone operators plugged fast at the sound of Marshal Pilsudski's imperative roar, the call went through instantly, a nurse answered. Said she:"General Buchopicki is dead...
...Marshal is ill and will see no one," said a servant, closing the door firmly in the Vice Premier's face. As usual, Josef Pilsudski, sly possum, was playing dead. Five minutes later he received an old friend, Minister of Posts Medzinski. Together they arranged the morrow's little melodrama...
When this scene had played to its end last week, pandemonium broke loose. Opposition Deputies cursed one another for not voting down the bill. Beards bristled, tongues wagged. How ever had it all happened, asked the Deputies, amazed at themselves? The explanation seemed to be that Josef Pilsudski knows his Poland. From the new budget he will derive alarmingly great sums to spend upon his special toy, the army...