Impossible to Resign!

"My health is on the point of breaking," said Prime Minister Kasimir Bartel to members of his Cabinet last week. "After nearly three years of conducting affairs of state, I am in urgent need of rest. In short, gentlemen, I have tendered my resignation."

When the long official envelope reached President Ignatz Moscicki at Spala, where he had gone for a brief vacation, it appeared to cause surprise, consternation. Soon the flustered President sped to Warsaw, consulted earnestly with the real master of Poland, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, who insists upon remaining technically War Minister, though actually Dictator. Emerging from this conference, poor puppet President Moscicki intimated that the Marshal had again refused to accept the Prime Ministry himself and saw no reason for accepting the resignation of M. Kasimir Bartel, just because he thinks he needs a rest.

Therefore the Prime Minister's resignation was not accepted, last week, and he remained the unenvied head of a Government supported on the one hand by the Army and Marshal Pilsudski, but constantly menaced and savagely attacked in Parliament by ever-changing permutations and combination of Poland's 50 active political parties and organizations. Assuming that M. Bartel manages to get his resignation accepted, after all, likely successors to the Prime Ministry include M. Stanislaw Patek, now Polish Minister at Moscow, Minister of Education Kazimierz Switalski, and Director Goretzki of the Agricultural Bank.