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Just before the death of beloved Marshal Josef Pilsudski, Poland's great Dictator gave his country a new Constitution, vested unique-powers in the modest scientist who is President of Poland, Dr. Ignacy Moscicki (TIME, May 6). Last week official translations of the new Constitution were released abroad by Polish diplomats...
...President of the Republic, according to the new Constitution, also must or may do pretty much everything else. In some dismay, Scientist Moscicki finds himself not only endowed by Article XII with the ordinary powers of a European president whose acts must be countersigned like those of a king by the appropriate minister, but further endowed by 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...
...general strike in protest against the new Constitution's electoral provisos which stifle 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...
JOHN CAMPBELL MERRIAM: A distinguished scientist whose wise administration of the Carnegie Institution has advanced knowledge on many fronts...
...wrote approvingly of the work of Vilfredo Pareto in his The Mind in the Making, few U. S. readers had heard the name of that eminent Italian sociologist or knew what sort of ideas he had advanced in his nine fat volumes. Widely recognized in Europe as a social scientist of great originality and erudition, as a vigorous commentator on world affairs in French and Italian newspapers, as professor of political economy at the University of Lausanne, Pareto's transatlantic reputation grew slowly after his death in 1923 and was almost entirely limited to academic circles. Last week Professor...