Word: poland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outrageously high-handed measures were countenanced by Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski during the general election completed last week. At the same time, however, he could point to an impartial report showing that Poland has prospered vastly since his swashbuckling seizure of power (TIME...
...pact which would so openly flout Article X of the League of Nations. This article guarantees that the territorial integrity and political independence of member states is to be preserved against external aggression. France has other objections in her Locarno security pledges and her treaties of protection with Poland and the Little Entente...
...Hungarian Government's lame explanation was that the guns were con- signed to Poland. The Italian Government, bolder, sought to forestall possible investigation by the League of Nations, postulating through the Fascist press the "unalterable opposition'' of Signer Benito Mussolini to such procedure...
...entered the War. Paderewski went home to become Premier of Poland. He drew up a plan of an independent Poland. He went to the Peace Conference, helped Poland to its freedom, won international recognition for his distinguished service. For nearly six years he did not touch the piano. Then in 1922 he came back, proved that the stubby fingers had lost none of their fleetness, that the Paderewski tradition was supreme...
...Paderewski himself dislikes both, signs himself always I. J. Paderewski. Ignacy is still used in Poland...