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...Elitarism" is the contribution to political science of Colonel Walery Slawek, spur-clinking Premier and close crony of the Marshal. Last week Colonel Slawek was hailed as "Father of the Polish Constitution." As a bow to Democracy it retains Poland's democratically elected Chamber but strips it of power by giving the President an absolute veto. The Senate is replaced by "The Assembly of Elders," one-third appointed by the President, the other two-thirds by Poland's new official Elite, namely males who have won either of two war decorations, the Virtuti Militari Order or the Independence...
...bother often to be Premier of Poland. Il Duce appoints and demotes his henchmen to & from offices as Governor of Rome, taking care that no man holds power too long. Last week it was time for Dictator Pilsudski to demote from the office of Premier of Poland Col. Walery Slawek and appoint in his stead Col. Alexander Prystor...
...office of Premier is a hard and wearing position. No man should hold it for more than six months." Col. Walery Slawek, before his demotion last week, had been Premier since November last while Dictator Pilsudski serenely vacationed in Madeira, positive of his grip on power (TIME, March 2). Who are the "Pilsudski Colonels"? Who is Prystor, the new Premier...
...official explanation, sufficiently remarkable, of why Col. Walery Slawek resigned last week was that his Finance Minister, Col. Ignace Matuszewski, "wished to resign." In the Slawek Cabinet Col. Prystor was Minister of Industry & Commerce, a subject with which he was notoriously unacquainted. Upon stepping to Poland's helm last week Premier Prystor reappointed Joseph Pilsudski Minister of War, appointed Jan Pilsudski (brother) Minister of Finance. The former Minister of Finance, Col. Matuszewski who so conveniently "wanted to resign," will be appointed by Col. Prystor as Polish Minister to the Court of St. James's, according to Warsaw gossip...
...Poland the new Prime Minister, Colonel Walery Slawek (TIME, Dec. 8), henchman of Marshal Josef Pilsudski, picked his Cabinet last week, popped the old Marshal back into the office from which he dictates to Poland, the War Office...