Word: prystor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rightist army leaders, the "Colonels' clique" of Pilsudski's regime, led by Colonels Valerian Slawek, Alexander Prystor, regard the "national unity" movement as too liberal. Two months ago, reactionaries, fearing Witos at the head of a strong Peasant Party, hired Count Wojceich Bieganek to assassinate Koc. The Count crouched outside the French windows of Koc's suburban Warsaw villa, but the bomb went off prematurely, blew him to bits...
...exciting Polish women, they made the crazy-quilt politics of Poland. In 1929, however, so many "Pilsudski Colonels" were called to onerous tasks of Government that cafe politics have been on the wane. Never a very good cafe politician was small, stern, intensely militant (although sartorially perfect) Col. Alexander Prystor...
...Prystor is at times too intense, too hard even for Pilsudski. There is the story of a Pole, suddenly promoted to high office, who exclaimed to the Marshal in genuine surprise...
...Well keep quiet about it.'' growled the gruff old Marshal with a twinkle. "Neither am I a Pilsudskist, but Prystor is sitting in the next room. Don't let him hear...
...official explanation, sufficiently remarkable, of why Col. Walery Slawek resigned last week was that his Finance Minister, Col. Ignace Matuszewski, "wished to resign." In the Slawek Cabinet Col. Prystor was Minister of Industry & Commerce, a subject with which he was notoriously unacquainted. Upon stepping to Poland's helm last week Premier Prystor reappointed Joseph Pilsudski Minister of War, appointed Jan Pilsudski (brother) Minister of Finance. The former Minister of Finance, Col. Matuszewski who so conveniently "wanted to resign," will be appointed by Col. Prystor as Polish Minister to the Court of St. James's, according to Warsaw gossip...