Word: slawek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rightist army leaders, the "Colonels' clique" of Pilsudski's regime, led by Colonels Valerian Slawek, Alexander Prystor, regard the "national unity" movement as too liberal. Two months ago, reactionaries, fearing Witos at the head of a strong Peasant Party, hired Count Wojceich Bieganek to assassinate Koc. The Count crouched outside the French windows of Koc's suburban Warsaw villa, but the bomb went off prematurely, blew him to bits...
...Marshal Josef Pilsudski's death last spring the Polish Government has been a Dictatorship without a Dictator. Last week the politico-military "Pilsudski Colonels," who rule with the kudos of the late Marshal, prudently decided to make some slight concessions to democratic Polish public opinion. Quietly, Colonel Walery Slawek resigned as Premier, was succeeded by his onetime Minister of Interior, Citizen Marjan Zyndram Koscialkowski. not a "Pilsudski Colonel." In the new Cabinet this week most of the Colonels kept their portfolios. But Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck, who has conducted Polish foreign policy for several years...
...Warsaw last week Premier Walery Slawek and the rest of that tight little clique known as the "Pilsudski Colonels" were still running Poland while newly omnipotent President Moscicki continued to accept the Army's advice as he always did during the lifetime of the Marshal. Fusty, scraggle-bearded Brother Jan Pilsudski has been installed as a sort of mascot Minister of War. Dictator Pilsudski's successor in the Inspector Generalship, key Army post which the old Marshal always held, now is masterful, magnetic General Edward Rydz-Smigly, like the late Dictator a hero of Poland...
...honorary pallbearers but carrying the heavy coffin on their own shoulders, members of the Cabinet of Premier Walery Slawek moved slowly down the aisle. Outside the sun was just breaking through the rain clouds. Along silent streets lined with troops and weeping crowds, the body passed. At one spot there was a near panic. A ladder left by some workman on a tile roof clattered to the ground. People screamed, broke windows, milled about, until square-capped officers with drawn sabres had cleared a path...
...sheer distortion of plain words out of their plain meaning this could scarcely be surpassed, and no such feat was attempted in Warsaw by Colonel Slawek. What he has done is to make a tolerably neat system out of the loose ends of Marshal Pilsudski's erratic and unsystematic but popular and effective Military Dictatorship...