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...apart at the very end was Marshal Pilsudski's own cavalry regiment. Eyes snapped right, flags dipped, and the muffled drums rolled, there was no other sound. Only when the parade was over did an army band mournfully play the national anthem, "Jeszcse Polska Nie Zginela" and follow it with "We, the First Brigade," the special hymn of the Pilsudski Legion...
Always quarrelsome, Warsaw editors were instantly at each other's throats in interpreting the Lipski-Hitler communique. "It does not inspire even the most moderate optimism," gloomed the conservative Kurjer Warszawski. But the also conservative Gazeta Polska hailed it as "one of the most important events of the last 15 years, in view of the fact that Polish-German relations have been generally regarded as the tinder box of Europe...
...Beck] is purely a personal one." When the Polish budget was presented to the Sejm last week. Finance Minister Zawadski admitted that it envisions a $40,000,000 deficit, admitted that more than one-third of the budgeted expenditures will be for military purposes. Said the official Gazeta Polska, "In the present circumstances it is manifestly the Government's first duty to maintain Poland's defenses...
...Poland is set!" screamed the Gazeta Polska, "and ready to defend her frontiers to the last drop of blood...
...Poland officially recognized as an autonomous state by the Treaty of Versailles; and not until then did "Marshal" Josef Pilsudski attain recognition by the Powers as the first President of Poland. M. Stanislaw Wojciechowski was elected to succeed him in 1922, and continues as Prezydent of the Rzeczpospolita Polska. The Sejm Ustawodawcry (Parliament) has actually existed since 1918, when it was created by the earlier "Regency Council" and "Provisional Council of State" which sprang up in response to the necessity for some sort of government during the War. The Slavonic Poles naturally continue "Catholic" (Russian Orthodox, Greek, Roman, Armenian...