Word: pilsudski
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Dictator Josef Pilsudski, moody and perverse, scorned even to appear before the recent session of the Polish Sejm (Parliament) which had risen last week for the holidays. Then, impulsively, Marshal Pilsudski decided late one night last week that he wanted to talk to the politicians after...
...Marshal Pilsudski," ventured the committee chairman at last, "do you wish to make a statement...
This Don Quixote upon his sagging, sopping Rosinante was Josef Pilsudski, Marshal and Dictator of Poland, astride the 25-year-old mare on which he charged at the head of his Polish Legionnaires...
...eighth anniversary of Marshal Pilsudski's return to Poland from the German prison in which he languished throughout the War; for he was captured amid the first skirmishes of the Legionnaires which he had raised in an effort to free Poland. As he sat last week on his "grand old mare" 30,000 Polish soldiers paraded in review before him. Poles, mindful of their debt to the always temperamental and often foolhardy Marshal, cheered him. From Ostrolenka, near Warsaw, there came an old, tottering Jew who presented Dictator Pilsudski with a handsome bouquet and declared that only since...
Amid this apparent demonstration of loyalty by all classes 1,000 "doves of peace" (trained army carrier pigeons) were released by order of Marshal Pilsudski and wheeled in three great circles above the square. It was apparent that the Marshal retains his heroic stature in the hearts of his people. By way of showing that he is both a Pole and a true cosmopolitan he appointed last week Mlle. Teiko Kiwa, first Japanese to sing the role of Madame Butterfly at the Polish National Opera, to assist President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland in unveiling a statue of Chopin* close...