Word: skladkowski
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...nightmare situation in European politics. Potent Germany on the west wants to take a slice of Poland's territory; potent Soviet Russia on the east wants to overthrow Poland's economic system. Poland has a President and a Premier. But last week the Premier. Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski, proclaimed that henceforth Poland's No. 2 Man, second only to mild, scholarly President Ignacy Moscicki, will be the Inspector-General of the Army, Edward Rydz-Smigly. He will outrank the Premier himself and all his Cabinet members, and his orders are to be obeyed...
...Sejm assembles. Only Minister of Interior Slawoi Skladkowski sits, alone and forlorn, upon the Government bench. Opposition deputies stroke their beards in satisfaction, twirl confident mustaches, whisper that the Budget Bill will never pass. Once again they tear it to tatters in a furious debate. At last the President of the Sejm calls for the final vote...