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Ever since great Marshal Josef Pilsudski's death last spring the Polish Government has been a Dictatorship without a Dictator. Last week the politico-military "Pilsudski Colonels," who rule with the kudos of the late Marshal, prudently decided to make some slight concessions to democratic Polish public opinion. Quietly, Colonel Walery Slawek resigned as Premier, was succeeded by his onetime Minister of Interior, Citizen Marjan Zyndram Koscialkowski. not a "Pilsudski Colonel." In the new Cabinet this week most of the Colonels kept their portfolios. But Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck, who has conducted Polish foreign policy for several years...
Poland provides a sort of answer to the nervous Italian question, "After Mussolini, what?" Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski has been dead since May. but the Polish Dictatorship last week remained serenely alive and firm. Called to vote acceptance or rejection of a Parliamentary slate selected by the Warsaw Government, Poles have just voted acceptance, though 60% of the high-spirited Polish electorate remained away from the polls and three Poles were killed in election shindies. Last week President Ignatz Moscicki, who was to Marshal Pilsudski about what Italy's King is to her Dictator, hailed a stirring and significant...
Never will Poles forget that their walrus-mustached, profane and eccentric Josef Pilsudski, who was also greathearted, valiant and dearly beloved, turned back the Soviet Armies from Warsaw with his Legions when all seemed lost and set Poland free, then made her Fascist and Europe's first bulwark against Communism...
Benito for Business. The fireworks being over, the League Council, as it always does, appointed a commission. Chairmanned by Salvador de Madariaga, oldtime Spanish idealist and Leaguophile, the Commissioners were Premier Laval, Captain Eden, Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck and Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Rushtu Aras. With a show of bravado Fascist Aloisi said that "Italy reserves absolute freedom of action!" But Geneva was heavy with rumors that Dictator Mussolini had privately intimated that he was now ready to do business with the Peacemen, if they can and will do business...
...Papen became Minister to Austria. No sooner had Dr. Schacht spoken this week than Nazi local satraps began blustering against "reactionaries"?i. e. Schacht. All parts of his speech embarrassing to Nazis were omitted from German newsorgans by order of Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels. Sensing the showdown which cannot be put off forever, Germany waited nervously for Adolf Hitler, who has been on a secretive vacation in Bavaria for nearly two months, to show up in Berlin, his fateful advent being daily expected...