Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With danger of another World War desperately acute, and the chances good that part of it would sooner or later be fought upon Polish soil by the armies of Germany and Russia, the Warsaw Government abruptly dissolved Parliament last week and called an election for November...
Purpose : a last-minute attempt to win widespread Polish support at the polls for the ostensibly Democratic Republic whose Strong Man is Field Marshal Smigly-Rydz...
Most of the political parties and 60% of Poles entitled to vote boycotted the last election in 1935, because the "Polish Republic" is a mere façade for Army Dictatorship, although technically under the Constitution dictatorial powers are vested in a civilian professor of chemistry, President Ignacy Moscicki. Army Strong Man Smigly-Rydz hopes he can now coax the boycotting parties back into making a show of national unity at the polls, but not of course into ousting the Army clique of which he is the head...
...that their minimum terms were Government pardon for their leader, famed, rustic Wincenty Witos, who was jailed under the dictatorship of Marshal Pilsudski in 1930, escaped and fled to Czechoslovakia. Warsaw reports failed to reveal whether Marshal Smigly-Rydz is yet ready to have Wincenty Witos pardoned, recalled that Polish reactionaries attempted the assassination of persons who some years ago proposed this pardon...
WARSAW--Poland tonight told Soviet Russia in effect that she intends to go ahead with her program to regain control of the Polish minority in Czechoslovakia regardless of what Moscow may think about...