POLAND’S BIG MAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17945, 2 May 1928, Page 13

POLAND’S BIG MAN.

/S TR|C K; E N WIIH PAR AL Y SIS,

(United Press Association—By Electric ..Telegraph-—Copyright.) . * ■ - BERLIN,- April SO.--’ : It is reported that Marshal Pilsudski'' is- paralysed. ; ; - :: i ' .

Personally modest, although grand in hi?, idea?, Marshal ..Pilsudski is the last mpn‘ to ' allow his country. 1 0 reqeiye. jq®, TPfSthp'art .of. atiy bargain if within hi^^imvrei;^. prevent it,, a fact .which apparent this,',week in, ypn? nectidn’" w’ith tlje Polaiid-Liiliuaniari bcotndary dispute..in, connection ,tyith w^!ch, ; hH;fis i 'deter-,,' i .j»ed..’'bq,l.pni ; sue‘.''his, toiisldered J cm irse’; , irrespective?,... bf. threats frbnj'ihe Soviet' Gd.vefnjiieht of;.:?Rti'ssia* ! ' which' is Attempting; tq.,.iuterfefe''between ' the' tivp‘ oount.riesi' WMH> he'- w tired from 'active ..polltics inf 1920'[it, was hoped that the 'quai-i els which had occurred over his policy, arid ’■which had disturbed' tile life of Pblarfd ’fiit a - considerable fiiihe, would, end Alkl'that the country would feetW ddw-ii'jTnbi J ‘e contentedly, but it'was 'hppareii't' that hie was not the distiirbiiig factor-,:,.f0r the factional wrangling -continued' unabated and, with intensified feeling. ; When this -trend, of events becAHiu- .a- metiaoe to the Republic; "Mari shal ;Pijsxi;dskL. came to 'the conensioTT that,.-as,the creator and spiritual leader ofi the mqdern Pp’ish: State, lie could no, longer,, remain inactive. Again supt ported by. hi? devoted army l ; lie' demanded the . strengthening of -the' auf;lip'r.ity>’of the President.: a, greater: .measure of Government.' independence from_ a faction-ridden Parliament, and the ipiqeaghment of : all persons, guilty of corruption, regardless oftbeir si ending or party support. His opponents succeeded. in gaining the , formal suppoft of M; .Wb'jciecliowskij President ,qf thq Repujilic,' and. llie mi]ita.i;v .demen,--straiidn' uiidertaken by Marshal sndski;'•Jet,eloped into a three .' day?* con'flict 'in.'thei^''streets of but the;';.Jesuit;'w ; ’s the resignation of,' the President.?’ Tke National Assembly, elected by' a great* maiority a new .President in the.person of Marshat'Pijsiidskij f'lTis hpppintment "was 1 hailed wit;h'!ytreiiienddus entli usiasm '»through-' but.’tlie: who’e ' country. nartfrhHfly i.ntiOritf the'peasant and working classes; The ■ Marshal.. however, being desirous of' devoting himseif , entiie'y to f lie ariny,. did , not accept the 'high office n«d reeQmrnended • To-nocz Mosiekims the most suitable oardinate. The 'jtitfep wap e T ected. and called upon M," Rn'rt«l +o- .form a Government, the Marslir,! -himself' accepting.- the portfolio of. Minister of .Wai- and Ghairman of ;the ßupreme- Army Council, a ncisitiob'of affairs'yhii’h is retained at the. 'present time with more or less success. ■ •