POLAND: Dictator's Ghost

Toughest job of Poland's cultivated soldier-aristocrats is to maintain a dictatorship based on the personality of the late great Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Excuse for the dictatorship is Poland's 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...

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