Word: sejm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator Josef Pilsudski, moody and perverse, scorned even to appear before the recent session of the Polish Sejm (Parliament) which had risen last week for the holidays. Then, impulsively, Marshal Pilsudski decided late one night last week that he wanted to talk to the politicians after...
From his sufficiently regal abode, the Belvedere Palace, Pilsudski decided to amuse himself a little longer by playing cat and mice with the disorganized and virtually impotent Sejm (Parliament...
With playful malice he issued a decree that all members of the Sejm must stand during the reading of whatever proclamations he may send to them. The Deputies immediately expressed indignation, and indicated their refusal to ratify the decree unless Marshal Pilsudski would agree to come and read his own proclamation standing before them. Tiger cat Pilsudski, no doubt secretly intrigued by the defiance of his mice, turned the incident into high comedy by commanding the First Lancers Regiment to march twice around the Parliament Building in full war regalia. Having thus shown his physical encirclement of and contempt...
...clay-footed hero seemed to have appeared in Poland when Marshal Josef Pilsudski seized the Government (TIME, May 24). Hesitant, irresolute, he could not bring himself to accept the responsibility either of ruling Poland as a dictator or of heading the State as Premier. Instead he temporized, forced the Sejm to elect one Ignatz Moscicld President of Poland and to confirm the puppet Cabinet of Premier Bartel. Since then Marshal Pilsudski has snapped the whip over President and Premier from the post of Minister of War; and Polish politics have degenerated into bedlam. Last week the Deputies of the Sejm...
...President to receive power to: 1) Dissolve the Sejm (Parliament) and Senate; 2)Rule by decree when Parliament is not in session; 3) Rule by decree, in any case, until January...