Word: sejm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franz von Papen and German Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher. Starting out with a soft, soothing, almost inaudible rattle last week Col. Beck declared, "Our foreign policy will remain unchanged. The change [from Zaleski to Beck] is purely a personal one." When the Polish budget was presented to the Sejm last week. Finance Minister Zawadski admitted that it envisions a $40,000,000 deficit, admitted that more than one-third of the budgeted expenditures will be for military purposes. Said the official Gazeta Polska, "In the present circumstances it is manifestly the Government's first duty to maintain Poland...
Eleven resolute women, all Drys, all members of the Government bloc in Poland's Sejm (Diet), arose from their seats last week, marched round and round the hall giving tongue to Dry slogans...
...women of the Opposition hesitated, gradually wrestled down their party loyalty, got up and joined the parade. Soon nearly every woman's tongue in the entire Sejm was lashing a Government bill introduced to relax the ten-year-old Polish law which forbids liquor sales between Saturday midnight and Sunday...
...Last week he grew weary of eternal bickering and backbiting from Parliament, principally because its parties could not agree on certain constitutional alterations which Josef Pilsudski thinks necessary. So he had the President declare him Prime Minister (his only office hitherto has been Minister of War) and dissolve the Sejm and Senate pending November general elections. For his cabinet he chose five of the "colonel group." With the aid of his War veterans' organization, he may be able to elect a sizeable majority of his supporters next November. Aperiodically Dictator Pilsudski calls in the newspaper reporters and pours...
...Less than a year ago Marshal Pilsudski thumped a table, roared ''The Polish Sejm . . . I call a prostitute...