Warsaw, July 16, A measure tantamount to creating! 1 military dictatorship in Poland was oflicilly announced here yesterday.
General Rydz Smigly, Inspector General of the armed forees of Poland and the successor (o the late Marshal Pilsudski as head of the Polish army, was officially proclaimed "The Firs [Personality in the Stale afler the [President." which is equivalent to the role of virtual dictatorship.
"The decision was communicated to} all civil servants in an official come munique signed by the Premier, General Siawo} Skladkovskl—Havas.
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