Evening star., 1926-05-16

a cabinet: upon which inability the
republic is perhaps to be congratu-
| lated.)
PoIand-Marshal Joseph Pilsudski
has executed a military coup d'etat,
and apparently has made himself die
tator of Poland. I say apparently, >"
for it does not surely appear that he
is completely master Of the situation.
PilsudSki was provisional President OF
Poland, 1882. He is undoubtedly a
great patriot. but there may he two
minds concerning his political sagac-
ity. He is regarded by his country
men as a military hero Of the first
water. OF his intrepidity there can
be no question. but perhaps his mill
tary skill has been overestimated. 1t
was not Pilsudski. but the French
Gen. Weygand who drove back the
| Russians in 1920.
Pisudski claims. I understand that
| his intervention is directed against
reaCtionary movement tending to
monarchy. His main political sup
port in the past has come from the
Socialists, and. unless he has moved
away from his former principles. he
stands for agrarain reform. amalga-
nation of racial elements and the re-
public-good things to stand for. But
there Is something singularly unreal
about Polish politics.
OF course, the zloty, previously
more or less slumping. has since the
coup slumped furiously.
X r x
Arctic Adventtre.-Comdr. Richard
f. Byrd, U. s. n, with Floyd Bennett
of Lake George, n. Y. as his pilot,
took off from Kings Bay, Spitzbergen,
in the F'okker plane Josephine Ford
at 1850 am, May 9, pointed for the
North Pole. He reached the pole,
verified the fact with sun compass
and bubble seXtant. circled the top
of the world three times, dashed back
to Kings Bay, circled above it three
times and made a perfect landing,
elapsed time 1914 hours.
Never in the annals of adventure
was there a more elegant perform
ance The immortality thus achieved
was the deserved result of the most
exact scientific preparation, finished
technique and two hearts of oak.
On Tuesday morning q o'clock.
New York time) with hearts no less
stout. Capt Amundsen. Col. Mobile,
Lincoln Ellsworth and their IA COM
panions sailed in the airship Norge
from Kings Bay for Alaska via the
Pole. In Is hours the Norge was over
the Pole The last clear radio mes
sage received from her was dispatch
ed about two hours later. She was
seen off Point Barrow by several per-
sons at about am. Thursday New
York time). About the same time
the last fragmentary radio message
from her was picked up.
On May 8 Capt. Wilkins in his great
plane Detroiter safely negotiated the
hazardous flight from Fairbanks to
Point Barrow over the Brooks range.
He has been deferred by unfavorable
weather conditions from flying over
the unexplored region.
X X
Miscellaneous.-Belg is having
a cabinet crisis.
The French franc continues to fall.
War is on again vigorously In
Morocco.
The French are cleaning up the
Hauran Druses in Syria.
OF the three Spanish planes which.
on April 5. hoped of from Madrid
for Manila, one, and one only, reached
Manila, on April 13.
Ouzounovitch, who recently sue
ceeded the veteran Pashitch as pre-
mier Of the Kingdom Of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes, has reconstruct
ed the cabinet, giving Raditch, leader
of the Croatian Peasants Party, the
portfolio of education, which he held
in the late cabinet. Pashitch resigned
as the result of a row kicked up by
Raditch. Matters are not running
any too smoothly in the Kingdom of
the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. (Why
don't they get a less clumsy denomi-
nation for their country?)
When about month ago Gen. Pan
galos became President of Greece he
renounced, with some ostentation. his
dictatorial powers. He has resumed
them with still more ostentation.
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