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Shortly before her death "by accident" in Vilna, Dzjunka betrayed Rasonski to Napoleon as a Russian spy. When her confession of this brought from Rasonski only an affectionate squeeze of the arm, even Dzjunka had to admit that her husband's masochistic gallantry had attained heroic pitch...
...into the League of Nations its best friends have rated it brittle. Fearing their cherished instrument would snap like an icicle if used against a Great Power, League statesmen have pussyfooted for 15 long years. They let Poland conquer a good third of Lithuania and seize its then capital Vilna, which Poland still holds. They let Japan master four rich Chinese provinces. No sanctions were imposed to stop bloodshed between Bolivia and Paraguay. Though the League's own charter or Covenant is part of the Treaty of Versailles, the League played dead when Adolf Hitler violated the Treaty...
...Kosciuszko, Champion of Liberty; Prince Poniatowski. President Moscicki pronounced the last eulogy and the body of Marshal Pilsudski, in a silver coffin, was laid to rest beside them. With much simpler ceremonies Marshal Pilsudski's heart will be buried by his mother's grave at Vilna. To capture Vilna, Marshal Pilsudski sent Poland to war in 1920, and his brain will go to the University of Warsaw, now to be known as Pilsudski University. Exhausted with much mourning, Ambassador Bullitt went to bed in Cracow...
Benito Mussolini has been a Socialist, a soldier, a Fascist. Josef Pilsudski performed several flip-flops more. He was born a Polish aristocrat, at Zulow, Province of Vilna, but his family had already lost most of its wealth through participation in a brief revolt against Imperial Russia in 1864. When Josef was seven the family fortunes were wiped out in a disastrous fire. Through high school he was in constant hot water with his teachers by insisting on speaking Polish...
Post-War nations which have seared each other with the hottest hate are Lithuania and Poland. Reason: a swashbuckling corps of Polish officers seized Vilna in 1920 and Poland still holds that city, whereas the Constitution of Lithuania opened then and still opens with the sentence: "The capital of Lithuania is Vilna...