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Today almost the only champion of the Deputies' rights against the whims of the Dictator is Speaker of the Sejm Ignacy Daszynski, the Civilian Marshal of Poland, a onetime friend but now foe of the "Military Marshal"?Pilsudski...
During the enforced adjournment of the Sejm, bold Speaker Daszynski defied the Dictator in several newspaper articles calling upon him either to suppress Poland's parliamentary institutions entirely or permit the Sejm to reconvene. At last Pilsudski's gruff consent was given. Deputies scurried up to Warsaw. Then last week, half an hour before Speaker Daszynski's gavel was due to fall, a rumor spread that the National Democratic and Socialist Deputies were going to rush through a vote of no-confidence in the Government...
Socialist Deputy Daszynski delivered what was deemed a bold if not rash pronouncement against the Dictator: "The people of Poland are wondering why so much confusion reigns if Marshal Pilsudski is such a god as to have brought about this revolution. All the proposals we have so far are a mixture of American, French and Mussolini platitudes...
Pointing to Pilsudski's then empty seat in the Cabinet Box, Daszynski concluded passionately: "It is as Marguerite said to Faust, 'I am not sure...