Word: rydz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poland's Smigly-Rydz [Sept. 14, 1939-He ran true to form also...
...high Polish officers escaped from Poland with much military honor left. Not only were men like Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz (now also in Rumania) criticized for their professional handling of the Polish Army, but they were roundly condemned for leaving their country while their Army was still fighting. Exception was General Casimir Sosnokowski, who led a last-ditch offensive action against the eastbound Germans near Lwów even while Soviet troops approached from the other direction. Last week General Sosnokowski arrived safely in Paris, and his aide, a Colonel Dehnel, told newsmen the story of the General...
...maneuver technically necessitated by the fact that Poland's erstwhile "Strong Man" Marshal Smigly-Rydz and other members of the former Polish Cabinet had not only been interned but held strictly incommunicado in Rumania, as a result of joint pressure applied by Berlin and Moscow to King Carol...
Last week as the curtain came down on the Republic of Poland, the quarrel of Colonel Beck and Marshal Smigly-Rydz on a railway platform in Rumania might well have opened its final scene. Three weeks before, they had been the responsible rulers of one of Europe's major powers- its sixth in population and area. Proud men, independent and successful, they had reason to be proud. Philosophical Smigly-Rydz, shy and softspoken, had built Poland's Army until it included 1,500,000 trained reserves; deft Josef Beck, untroubled by accusations of lack of scruples, had maneuvered...
Eighteen days, 432 hours later, the General and the Foreign Minister stood on the railway station of a provincial city in a foreign country, quarreling so bitterly that newspaper correspondents watching feared blows might bring their tragedy to an ignoble climax. Abruptly Smigly-Rydz turned, walked away. The Foreign Minister stood irresolute for a moment, walked to the other end of the platform, to be interned a few days later, like Smigly-Rydz, by the Rumanian Government. Despairingly Warsaw fought on; the ghost of Poland would haunt Europe for many a season; but their Poland was dead...