Pilsudski Bros.

In his eleventh year of shouting through walrus-like whiskers the contempt he feels for Poland's Parliament and Poland's politicians,* Marshal Josef Pilsudski took a drastic step last week, told President Ignatz/- Mosciki of Poland to call to the Prime Ministry Judge Jan Pilsudski. Promptly the President did as he was told.

Jan is brother to Josef. Jan remembers the time when Josef, equipped not only with walrus whiskers but also a handsome, goatlike beard, was clapped into jail by the Imperial Russian Government for making exactly the same sort of remarks he makes as Dictator today. Jan remembers how Josef's lawyers suggested that in jail he act and talk like a madman, and how magnificently Josef played the role, and how the Imperial Russian Government was so obtuse as to transfer him to a hospital in St. Petersburg, whence he promptly escaped.

If anybody in Poland understands her quixotic Dictator, that somebody ought to be made Prime Minister, and last week Poles were hopeful that, with Jan at the head of the Cabinet table, Josef (who insists on playing that he is only War Minister) will not snort and swear so much, will vent less often his favorite expletive: "Parliament! A prostitute, gentlemen! Parliament is a prostitute!" (TIME, July 9, 1928, et seq.).

Jan Pilsudski for prime minister looked like a good idea to millions of Poles last week, but parliament (tired of being called something else beginning with a ''P") rebelled. President Mosciki was convinced by party leaders that Jan Pilsudski as Prime Minister could not get the necessary vote of confidence. Jan became convinced too. It was said in Warsaw that Jan convinced snorting Josef.

Eventually President Ignatz Mosciki asked Colonel Walery Slawek, "one of the Pilsudski colonels," to try and form a government. "I should call Walery Slawek a romantic figure," wired a native Polish correspondent, replying to a query from his U. S. editor. "He took part with Marshal Pilsudski in various anti-Russian enterprises before the War, during one of which his face was disfigured by the premature explosion of a bomb."

* Poland's Parliament is eleven years old. Poland's politicians are of twelve major and ten minor parties.

/-Born in Poland, but later a naturalized Swiss, and only in recent years a renaturalized Pole, he has been more often called "Ignatz" than "Ignacy,"' answers to friends who call him either.

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