Word: poland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cabinet. At Warsaw it was announced that former Premier Count Skzrynski had refused at the last moment to become Foreign Minister in the new Bartel Cabinet (TIME, May 24), in which Marshall Pilsudski has been content to hold merely the War Ministry though actually the virtual dictator of Poland. The Cabinet, as finally announced last week...
Premier Bartel, a non-Socialist Laborite, rose from the estate of a locomotive engineer in his youth to the chief professorship of physics at the Lwow Polytechnical Institute. He won fame by his efficient superintendence of Poland's railway mobilization against the Soviets' attempted invasion six years ago. Last week he announced: 1) The Cabinet will at once convoke the National Assembly, which will elect a new President who must be acceptable to Marshal Pilsudski. 2) The Cabinet will then resign, and the President will name a new Premier. 3) Thereafter Parliament will be prorogued by executive decree until...
...some 10,000 troops, which started to march on Warsaw early in the week to overthrow Pilsudski. Late despatches reported that this expedition had been abandoned, that General Haller had been feted and decked with flowers by Posenites, who were encouraging him to set up a rival government of Poland with their city as its capital...
...exhausting concert season. Friends and pressmen, some 50 of them, came to the boat to wish him a happy summer, came to find out whether there were any truth in the report that he would go back to politics, be a candidate for the presidency of Poland...
...Women and children are dropping dead of hunger on the streets in Bessarabia.* Many others are found dead in their homes in Poland. A horrible scourge of typhus is sweeping over the Jews in both lands. . . Children eat what they can find in garbage cans . . . sleep in alleys, in cellars. . . . Hundreds are killing themselves . . . the Jews of America must respond...