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...Article XIII with what the new Constitution calls "prerogatives," these requiring no countersignature. At his autocratic pleasure he can dissolve the Sejm and Senate and can dismiss the Premier, First President of the Supreme Court, President of the Supreme Chamber of Control, and the Commander-in-Chief and Inspector General of Poland's armed forces by land, sea and air. Moreover the President orders Polish general elections and nominates one of the candidates who may succeed himself as President, the electoral machinery being so rigged that a determined President can virtually control the choice of his successor. Saddled with...
...running Poland while newly omnipotent President Moscicki continued to accept the Army's advice as he always did during the lifetime of the Marshal. Fusty, scraggle-bearded Brother Jan Pilsudski has been installed as a sort of mascot Minister of War. Dictator Pilsudski's successor in the Inspector Generalship, key Army post which the old Marshal always held, now is masterful, magnetic General Edward Rydz-Smigly, like the late Dictator a hero of Poland's War of Independence...
...Democracy. Contemptuous of the proletariat, Army bigwigs gossiped in their cafes chiefly about who is going to be elected Poland's next President. Today the candidate of the "Colonel's Clique" to succeed Scientist Moscicki as President is able, energetic, shrewd General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, close crony of Inspector General Edward Rydz-Smigly who was expected to try to repeat Marshal Pilsudski's feat of managing Poland unobtrusively from behind the Army's scenes...
Retired from active service since January, little General Maxime Weygand, favorite of Marshal Foch and onetime Inspector General of the French Army, emerged from obscurity last week to take part in the ceremony of relighting the Eternal Flame under the Arc de Triomphe. He was greeted with wild cheers. One passer-by refused to take his hat off. That started a fist fight. Nationalists in the crowd suddenly began to shout: "Put Weygand in Power! Weygand for France!" His admirers nearly tore for the clothes off the little soldier, forced police to hustle him to safety. It was a small...
...days, kicked out the Government, and set up as President of Poland a kindly unworldly scientist who had been a good friend of the old Marshal's since their meeting in London in 1902: Ignatz Moscicki. Josef Pilsudski was content to become Premier, Minister of War and Inspector General of the Army. The last two posts he held until his death last week...