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Dictator Pilsudski, who detested politicians and was fond of calling the Sejm (Lower House) a "prostitute," settled that body's hash with this Constitutional clause: "The functions of governing the State do not belong to the Sejm...
...life Josef Pilsudski thought like a soldier. The constant bickering of Poland's Sejm (Parliament), which at one time contained at least 22 different parties, first amazed, then disgusted him. In May 1926 he headed a coup d'etat that raked the streets of Warsaw with gunfire for two days, kicked out the Government, and set up as President of Poland a kindly unworldly scientist who had been a good friend of the old Marshal's since their meeting in London in 1902: Ignatz Moscicki. Josef Pilsudski was content to become Premier, Minister of War and Inspector...
Just before the Sejm, Poland's despised parliament (often called "a prostitute" by profane, eccentric War Minister Josef Pilsudski), assembled last week the Government published three decree laws to strengthen still further Poland's defenses. All citizens of both sexes from 17 to 60 are made liable to "auxiliary military service," may be conscripted by a single Cabinet order, even in peace time. In case of war, the Government may conscript all property and, by implication, money. In peace time, under a subsection of this second decree, the State may order factories adapted for quick conversion...
...excessively dull is the diction of Deputy Stanislaw Car that most of the Opposition strolled out into the lobbies of Poland's Sejm last week while he expatiated on the Government Party's bill to make the Government of Poland constitutionally a Dictatorship (TIME...
...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...