Word: rydz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Specifically, the terse, determined Polish officer who has for some months past, been settling himself in a Dictator's saddle, Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz (TIME, July 27), was host in Warsaw last week to the Chief of the Rumanian General Staff, swart, secretive General Nicolas Samsonovici. While these two great military figures conferred, Polish and Rumanian diplomats finished up three weeks work, the effect of which is to revive in full force the 1921 treaty of mutual assistance between their two heavily-armed states, each larger than Italy and nearly as potent...
...wants to overthrow Poland's economic system. Poland has a President and a Premier. But last week the Premier. Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski, proclaimed that henceforth Poland's No. 2 Man, second only to mild, scholarly President Ignacy Moscicki, will be the Inspector-General of the Army, Edward Rydz-Smigly. He will outrank the Premier himself and all his Cabinet members, and his orders are to be obeyed...
Ever since Pilsudski's death last year, the Polish Government has tried to convince the Polish people that Rydz-Smigly is a man of the same stern, lusty stripe. Actually Rydz-Smigly is a polite, modest gentleman with a bald head, whose thin lips are his only evidence of severity. Before he joined the revolutionary Pilsudski Legion in 1914, he was an art student, specializing in landscapes...
...always did during the lifetime of the Marshal. Fusty, scraggle-bearded Brother Jan Pilsudski has been installed as a sort of mascot Minister of War. Dictator Pilsudski's successor in the Inspector Generalship, key Army post which the old Marshal always held, now is masterful, magnetic General Edward Rydz-Smigly, like the late Dictator a hero of Poland's War of Independence...
...proletariat, Army bigwigs gossiped in their cafes chiefly about who is going to be elected Poland's next President. Today the candidate of the "Colonel's Clique" to succeed Scientist Moscicki as President is able, energetic, shrewd General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, close crony of Inspector General Edward Rydz-Smigly who was expected to try to repeat Marshal Pilsudski's feat of managing Poland unobtrusively from behind the Army's scenes...