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There have been recent signs of the Polish Sejm (Parliament) attempting to oust Dictator Josef Pilsudski...
That strutting player whom many a Pole admires, Dictator-Marshal Josef Pilsudski, played again last week the now famous role which he enacts whenever the Sejm (Parliament) attempts to disobey...
...Sejm assembles. Only Minister of Interior Slawoi Skladkowski sits, alone and forlorn, upon the Government bench. Opposition deputies stroke their beards in satisfaction, twirl confident mustaches, whisper that the Budget Bill will never pass. Once again they tear it to tatters in a furious debate. At last the President of the Sejm calls for the final vote...
Suddenly?like the door of a jack-in-the-box?the heavy portal of the Sejm flies open. The Josef-in-the-box stands there, surrounded by his Cabinet. They are in formal dress, ablaze with orders. The Marshal, towering and black-browed, wears only his field uniform, wrinkled, unadorned...
...actions on his part as his sending (TiME, Nov. 15) a detachment of soldiers to march 'round and 'round the Parliament Building to prove his supremacy. As dawn broke upon last week's midnight meeting enough Deputies had collected to declare a formal session of the Sejm at which the budget was rushed through, military clauses...