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This deal having been consummated, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, set off last week for a goodwill visit to Moscow. As his train halted in Warsaw, Col. Josef Beck, Germanophile Polish Foreign Minister, was pointedly not at the station, snubbed Dr. Benes by sending only minor Polish officials to greet...
...Appleton; W. P. Arenwald; P. E. Arioli, Jr.; Z. A. Arenson; John Ashmead, Jr.; C. D. Ashmore; J. S. Bainbridge; W. L. Batt; David Beck; F. C. Bosler; D. M. Bowen; R. R. Boyd; R. P. Breck; N. C. Burbank, Jr.; C. D. Campbell; W. D. Castle; H. L. Chadbourne; A. M. Clark; H. vanB. Cleveland; E. R. Coburn; R. C. Cochrane, Jr.; L. A. Collins; J. L. Coombs; S. P. Cotton; E. H. Cox; Sylvester Cunningham; S. M. Dall; J. L. Dampeer; J. K. Davis; H. G. Deane; J. K. P. de Varon; Hume Dow; A. C. Doyle; Aldrich...
...minutes in Berlin, he expected what he got, scant attention from anybody except the French Ambassador. But he was chilled to the marrow, when the train pulled up on a well-guarded siding in Warsaw, by the strange stiffness of the top-hatted Poles. Foreign Minister Josef Beck explained that Pilsudski had a little hangover of influenza, proceeded to do the honors with a cold and abstracted air. Into this atmosphere Laval launched his strategic idea that Poland and Germany should join Russia in a consultative pact for non-aggression in Eastern Europe without mutual assistance guarantees. Beck, his mind...
...Marshal? He had been friendly to Germany, would Poland now swing back to France? Would Adolf Hitler seize on the next few months of indecision for a desperate try to regain the Polish Corridor? Would Pianist Ignace Paderewski come out of political oblivion? Would Foreign Minister Josef Beck be next Dictator of Poland? It was far too soon for any man to know the answer to any of these but one thing was certain. For the next few months at least Poland will be run by the same little group of old campaign cronies who used to meet night after...
Last week this sorest of Baltic feuds was suddenly reported about to be healed by a Polish-Lithuanian peace pact. Partial confirmation came when Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck, instead of scouting the rumors, remarked pointedly that on his latest visit to the League of Nations he had a long chat in Geneva with the Lithuanian Minister to Paris, Dr. Petras Klimas whom he had hitherto avoided like the plague...