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...other hand the world has heard too much about the eccentricities (slanderously said "to amount to madness") of the great Polish soldier-statesman whom only Poles are temperamentally equipped to obey and understand. Marshal Josef Pilsudski. A dictator with a small "d," he refuses to be President, detests the Premiership, publicly calls the Polish Parliament a prostitute when he can think of no fouler epithet and rules Poland through a Cabinet clique called "the Pilsudski Colonels...
...whether the Government is able to command a majority when Parliament meets." First test of strength was expected to come Jan. 14 at a caucus of the Transvaal Nationalist Party. If Judge Roos captures the caucus from Premier Hertzog, that may start a landslide sweeping the Judge into the Premiership...
...skyrocketed into world consciousness during the twelvemonth. Mahatma Gandhi, 1930's Man of the Year, is still a prisoner of Britain in the Poona jail and his Indian followers are quiescent if not quiet. Pierre Laval, 1931's Man of the Year, was swept out of the premiership of France last February, is today only a Senator without portfolio. The May elections put Edouard Herriot into power for six months but fortnight ago he and his Ministry went crashing out on the issue of paying the U. S. War Debt...
...four days after his fall, Edouard Herriot blocked formation of a new Cabinet by stanchly insisting that France must pay. Urged by President Lebrun to resume the Premiership, M. Herriot declined the (for him) plainly impossible task of persuading the Chamber to reverse its vote. He thought that some other man might succeed. The President picked Former Premier Camille Chautemps, Minister of Interior in the fallen Herriot Cabinet...
Foxy M. Venizelos, having obtained this promise, considered himself well out of the Premiership last week, prepared to enjoy one of his periods of "indefinite retirement" at his home on Crete...