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Show POLISH ASSEMBLY ! BEGINSITS LABORS GENERAL PILSUDSKI CONTINUED IN HIS POST OF DICTATOR OF THE NATION. Premier Paderewski Declares That the Country Needs a Larger Army and Compulsory Service to pight Anarchy. Warsaw. The second important meeting of Europe's' newest parlia- j ment, the Polish national assembly, was held on February 21 and was marked by the formal turning over by General Joseph Pilsudski of his authority author-ity as dictator and its return to him, subject to the approval of the diet. Ignace Jan Paderewski, the premier, informed the parliament of the country's coun-try's situation and asked for a vote of confidence in the ministry. The narrow balconies were crowded ( with spectators, while the lower floor was reserved .for the members of the ' assembly. The present of peasants in national costume, with here and there priests and rabbis, testified that the assembly was not ruled by a clique of landed nobility. General Pilsudski, in accepting his appointment as head of the state, elicited applause by saying he accepted the duty imposed upon him, but felt that he had too arbitrary, a temperament tempera-ment for a role which required the conciliatory attributes of a statesman. Premier Paderewski, in ii lengthy address, ad-dress, declared that the country needed need-ed a large army and compulsory service serv-ice to fight Bolshevism. Secondly, he said, another effort must be made to promote the prosperity of the workers and give them better homes. Land must be secured to peasants who had none and more given to those who had only a little, but land reforms must not be carried out too hastily. |