Flattery

Marshal Josef Pilsudski

Warsaw, Poland Sir:

I respectfully report that with your permission I am about to die.

(Signed) STEFAN BUCHOPICKI General Retired

When he read this telegram, Marshal Pilsudski, Dictator, Premier, War Minister and national hero, sprang up, touched, flattered, to telephone the aged General Buchopicki full permission to die with the consent of his old commander. Telephone operators plugged fast at the sound of Marshal Pilsudski's imperative roar, the call went through instantly, a nurse answered. Said she:"General Buchopicki is dead."