POLAND: Impossible to Resign!

"My health is on the point of breaking," said Prime Minister Kasimir Bartel to members of his Cabinet last week. "After nearly three years of conducting affairs of state, I am in urgent need of rest. In short, gentlemen, I have tendered my resignation."

When the long official envelope reached President Ignatz Moscicki at Spala, where he had gone for a brief vacation, it appeared to cause surprise, consternation. Soon the flustered President sped to Warsaw, consulted earnestly with the real master of Poland, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, who insists upon remaining technically War...

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