Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the death of beloved Marshal Josef Pilsudski, Poland's great Dictator gave his country a new Constitution, vested unique-powers in the modest scientist who is President of Poland, Dr. Ignacy Moscicki (TIME, May 6). Last week official translations of the new Constitution were released abroad by Polish diplomats...
Stirring to Poles is Article I: "The Polish State is the common weal of all its citizens. Resurrected by the struggle and sacrifice of its best sons it shall be passed on, as an historic heritage, from generation to generation. Each generation is under obligation to increase the power and authority of the State by its own endeavor. For the fulfillment of this duty it is responsible with its honor and its name to its descendants...
...pleasure he can dissolve the Sejm and Senate and can dismiss the Premier, First President of the Supreme Court, President of the Supreme Chamber of Control, and the Commander-in-Chief and Inspector General of Poland's armed forces by land, sea and air. Moreover the President orders Polish general elections and nominates one of the candidates who may succeed himself as President, the electoral machinery being so rigged that a determined President can virtually control the choice of his successor. Saddled with such awful responsibilities, more suitable to a national hero like Marshal Pilsudski than to Poles...
Last week puzzled Russian authorities called the second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow down to Minsk, few miles from the Polish border. Since September 1934 they had been holding a strange man there. He could speak no Russian but they had finally decided that he must be an American. Sure enough, it was Ernest Elmer Baker, dressed up in an old Red Army uniform. He had worked his way to Rotterdam, jumped ship with $10 in his pocket, started to walk to Russia. He had no passport because to get one he would have had to swear...
This deal having been consummated, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, set off last week for a goodwill visit to Moscow. As his train halted in Warsaw, Col. Josef Beck, Germanophile Polish Foreign Minister, was pointedly not at the station, snubbed Dr. Benes by sending only minor Polish officials to greet...