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...that all is shipshape, Marshal Pilsudski will smoke his pipe contentedly in his dear old War Office (he always remains War Minister), will leave the prime ministry to swashbuckling Colonel Walery Slawek who prepared to take up his chores last week. Under the fantastic Pilsudski administration, oddly enough, Poland prospers steadily. Example: Gydnia, up to a few years ago a tiny fishing village, is now the first 100% Polish "Gateway to the Sea," teems with imposing dockyards, has just been connected with the centres of Polish industry by a new railway...
Eventually President Ignatz Mosciki asked Colonel Walery Slawek, "one of the Pilsudski colonels," to try and form a government. "I should call Walery Slawek a romantic figure," wired a native Polish correspondent, replying to a query from his U. S. editor. "He took part with Marshal Pilsudski in various anti-Russian enterprises before the War, during one of which his face was disfigured by the premature explosion of a bomb...