Marshal Pilsudski on How He Saved Poland frum a Dictatorship Warcaw, May 26.
How Poland escaped a dictatorship was explained by Marshat Pilsudski in an interview with Reu ter's correspondent. Ho stated: "For six months I have been vainly striving for the execution of moral and political reforms in Poland, especially as regards the Army. What particularly annoyed me waa the impunity enjoyed by the new rich, This decided me to act, but only against the Government, not against the President.
Marshal Pilsudski regretted the President's refusal to treat with him and the failure of his attempts kt mediation and final victory.
He said that he did not desire the dictatorship, which would throw the whole burden of affairs upon ea man, whereas the arduous toil of many was necessary in order to reform the State.
Marshal Pilsudski was proud in accomplishing something unique by carrying out a coup aétat which he immediately legalized. It was a sort of revolution without revolutionary results, Marshal Pilsudski evaded the question as to whether he would he was awaiting the 'a number of candidates whom he would afterwards summon to his house and demand a joint undertaking that they would have no connexion with political parties, bunks, business groups and similar
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