Abstract

Pilsudski's Militarism

First Marshal of Poland, Jozef Klemens Pilsudski does things by halves. He is a dictator in fact but not by nature, and after the bloody events of the May putsch, he failed to follow up the advantages which his control of the army and his popularity as the symbol of Polish independence gave him. Pilsudski's role in history was finished when he and his adherents achieved Polish republican independence. He is no politician and less of an economist. Nevertheless, the so-called Radical Peasant Party, the Polish Party of Socialists, the Jews, and the Germans, all of whom supported him in May, are disgusted with him for what he has and. has not done. His return from voluntary exile to active politics raised high hopes in practically the entire nation. Now, after six months, many persons realize that their hopes are forlorn. Today Pilsudski is coquetting with the monarchists.