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Resistlessly impelled by latent causes of unrest, a revolution burst at Warsaw last week, ran its triumphant course. Once more was recalled the dictum of that outspoken Austrian, General Pflanzer: "Ha! The Poles? Sir, they are one-third magpies, one-third rabbits, one-third LIONS!"
Explosion. While the Marshal brooded, a band of Nationalists, infuriated by his press tirade against the Nationalist Witos Cabinet, rushed without warning upon his house, surrounded it, called to Pilsudski to come out and be thrashed. Thick-witted, they had not cut his telephone wire. With a lion's...
Agile young noblemen at Oxford, bandy-legged Scotsmen, savage Welshmen, bounding hooligans in Dublin sandlots, to say nothing of Germans, Frenchmen, Poles, and European Hebrews, play the game of soccer. American college boys play it too, but they rarely go out to watch it, and the crowd of 46,000...
With the national applecart thus upset, each of Poland's three political tycoons (Dmowski, Right; Witos, Center; Pilsudski, Left) encouraged his followers to set him up as dictator. Correspondents cabled that "anything might happen." Interest centred in fire-eating, swashbuckling Josef Pilsudski, a former (the second) President of the Rzeczpospolita...
British, French, Germans, Austrians, Belgians, Canadians, Czechs, Chileans, Dutchmen, Italians, Norwegians, Poles, Russians, Swedes, Swiss, Japanese-the Commissioners assembled-after some annoyances from Customs officials, who fancied that packing cases full of scientific documents might be dutiable-in the Engineering Societies' Building with their U. S. colleagues. Secretary Hoover...