New Cabinet

Since Alexander sighed--if he ever did--for more worlds to conquer, moralists have delighted to croak of heroes able td master their enemies but not themselves. Such a clay-footed hero seemed to have appeared in Poland when Marshal Josef Pilsudski seized the Government (TIME, May 24). Hesitant, irresolute, he could not bring himself to accept the responsibility either of ruling Poland as a dictator or of heading the State as Premier. Instead he temporized, forced the Sejm to elect one Ignatz Moscicld President of Poland and to confirm the puppet Cabinet of Premier Bartel. Since then Marshal Pilsudski has snapped the whip over President and Premier from the post of Minister of War; and Polish politics have degenerated into bedlam. Last week the Deputies of the Sejm, knowing that Pilsudski with the army at his back could and very well might chase them from Warsaw, united in a desperate attempt to force Marshal Pilsudski into the open and voted what amounted to "no confidence" in the Cabinet 260 to 92. The Bartel Cabinet thereupon resigned. Marshal Pilsudski, to the satisfaction of many a Pole, countered by assuming the Premiership himself. Significance. The new Cabinet was generally hailed with relief by the press of Warsaw as "a strong Left Democratic Government . . . the strongest Ministry assembled in Poland since the re-establishment of Polish independence .-- This enthusiasm was traceable in some degree to the satisfaction of wealthy newspaper owners at seeing in the Cabinet these potent monarchist landowners MM. Nieza- vytowski and Meysztowicz. Paradoxically enough the Socialist news- paper Robotnik (the Workman) founded by Pilsudski a decade ago was loud in condemning him last week for taking the decisive step at which he has balked so long. Foreign observers unanimously expressed the hope that Marshal Pilsudski had definitely mastered the tendency to vacillating irresolution which has caused the Polish Government to teeter and totter for five months.