Word: wladyslaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact was that swashbuckling Marshal & Dictator Josef Pilsudski suddenly dismissed from command of the important Lemberg garrison General Wladyslaw Sikorski, a onetime (1922-23) Prime Minister of Poland. Reason: rash General Sikorski has just published a book denying credit to Marshal Pilsudski for having stopped by his generalship the Bolshevist advance into Poland in 1920. The credit should go instead, writes General Sikorski, to the supervising strategy of famed French Commander General Max Weygand...
...whirred along he fashioned phrases which he hoped would make the might of Russia felt in Poland. Descending from his train at Warsaw, he found Premier Wladyslaw Grabski and indeed the whole city seemingly intent upon nothing but his honor...