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...announcement was issued as Potemkin conferred at length with Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck on means of improving friendship between the two nations in the mutual interest of their independence had frontiers...
...Warsaw press urged the Government to copy Herr Hitler's tactics and assume a protectorate over Danzig. Since the Führer saw fit to denounce the Polish-German Treaty in a public speech, the Polish Government decided to answer him in kind. This week Foreign Minister Josef Beck and Premier Felicjan Slawoj-Sklad-kowski are to go before the Polish Parliament and say their say about Herr Hitler. An unnamed spokesman for the British Cabinet declared: "If Poland fights, Britain and France will fight...
Ambassador Lipski listened dutifully to Hitler's proposals for a friendly flattening, raced straight to the station, caught an express to Warsaw, where Foreign Minister Josef Beck's auto was waiting to rush him to M. Beck's home. Three hours later Polish police were pulling reservists from their beds. French and British Ambassadors were summoned to hear M. Lipski's account of Herr Hitler's travelogue...
Unfriendly? Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck returned to Warsaw from London carrying the outline of a Polish-British Treaty of alliance in which not only Britain promised to go to war if Poland were attacked but Poland agreed to reciprocate. The alliance was expected to be signed this week...
...Italian press hastily pointed out that a British pledge was not an unmixed blessing. The German press warned Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck not to trust British guarantees...