Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-02
RY JOHN GUNTHER.

Correspondent fer The Star and Chicas,
Daily News IN Poland.
Believe Ii or not. the nickname q
che President Of Poland is Ignatg thu
Ooedient His real name is Prof
Ignscy MoScicSi and he was given his
job by Marshal Pilsudski, to whom h,
listens very carefully over the tele-
phone
Very few people know that Poland
has q president, l was iii Warsaw
sionally did I hear mention Of Prot
Hfosc,cki's name. This is because Mar
shall PilSudSki completely obScures him
both in practical Importance and IN
tlle imagination OF the outside world.
But now PilsudSki is i'll and it is
sad IN Warsaw that President Mos
cicki will exert more power. He was
elected" in June, 1926. and is 10 hold
Office for seven years. He was an
electro-cnemist. a professor in the Uni
versjty of Lwow and director Of an
important factory producing artificial
r2anuTes, when after the coup d'etat
ivo years ago he became President AZ
TsiSI6sSi'S suggestion. the old marshal
having refused the job himself,
FiisudSSi Is 1.-THE Duke"
Tcuatz the Obedient is typical Of
Poland by his nickname, Almost all
prominent Poles are known affection
rtely by their compatriots with some
respectful or perhaps mildly ironical
Ciminutiye The Poles take their politics
very Familiarity. For instance. Poland
first President was always known as
Gabriel the Unknown; his name was
Nsrutowicz and he was murdered after
holding Office only week. The second
President. Vojciechowski. was called
the Pious Gen RvdZsmigly, SOM
times mentioned as future successor
70 Pilsudski. is called the Mushroom. 3"
Marshal Pilsudski himself has nick
name. It is the Duke" Sometimes he
Is known more Familiarity simply AZ
'DZadek.' which means Grandpa,
His wife. Nine. PilsudSki, also bears
proud nickname. like that Of her hus-
band a relic of their SociallStic days,
"the Camel" This was q sort Of code
name
Moscicki and Pilsudski have done q
good Job in Poland The individual
parts played BIZ each hardly matter,
since Poland itself. SO the Poles say,
has benefited so greatly by their CO.
operation. The story OF the recovery
of Poland can hardly be matched IN
contemporary HIlfldIS. AiEfASl Gill 1A2I
who comes to Warsaw with an open
mind will go away convinced Of that.
Ten years ago Poland was ruin.
There is no other word. Except as a
rrrin-and a pronlise-Poland did not
exist. The country was devastated
BIZ five years Of war: pestilence and
famine waded wholesale through the
peasantry; 10000 German troops, TN
numbered Russians and at least two
Polish armies on the point of civil
var stared at each other,
Finance was a chaos. The railroads
did not run. There were no commit
nications Those who didn't succumb
b poverty did succumb to disease. In
the ministry Of finance there were ex-
ectly six oficiels. The country had to
Be COMPOSED anew of three sections
e-ch Of which has baen under Diff
fersnt domination for almost $50
years.
Progress Is Evident.
russian Poland. Austrian Poland,
German Pcland-tlie three parts some
hcw managed to coaiesce. Slowly some
sc-t cf order came out OF madness,
snd cut Ct the incredibly confused
velter Of domestic politics some sort
g strength became finally manifest.
BIZ LlEl INVASION Dy ruSSAd dAlu
var With the Ukraine almost toppled
orcr the new structure Ten years ago
f. Is fair 10 state that Poland did not
even have a real frontier.
The visitor to Warsaw today must
h,irg a little when he remembers all
that
Nineteen hundred and twenty-seven
vss 2 good year in Poland. and 1925
promises - be better The Poles can
Point n steady achievement in al
most every sphere Of domestic recon-
EtT7Iction.
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