Word: poland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: "My husband was the most surprised man in Poland when the troops which he had called upon to protect him against his enemies swept him away at the head of a revolution. He literally dropped the book which he was reading and seized his sabre. I know that he is terribly dejected over the lives which have been lost...
...escaped by feigning madness and began to organize "Exercise Corps" for the training of young Poles whom he hoped eventually to weld into an armed force which would liberate Poland from Russia...
Just before 1914 he had succeeded in creating a secret military organization The World War brought to him the opportunity of campaigning with these fanatically devoted troops against both Russian and Teutonic encroachment upon Poland. Eventually captured and imprisoned by the Germans at Magdeburg, he returned to Poland in 1918 to find himself her supreme military hero, though much of the work of liberating Poland which he inspired was performed by others...
Subsequently he was elected the President of Poland. He has continued to intermeddle in Polish affairs whenever he considered that "the politicians" as opposed to his beloved "army" were becoming corrupt or inefficient...
Said he: "I am not on the way to Poland. I do not know very much of the conditions there. What I did learn of the disturbances in Warsaw saddened me and made me worse. I am, in consequence of my illness, not fully acquainted with the facts. I deeply deplore the cruel and stupid bloodshed. It is my hope and ardent prayer that what may still happen will be for the good of my country and for peace. That...