Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Polish Foreign Minister Beck went to Berlin, conferred with the Führer, left Germany smiling cryptically but saying nothing...
Last week after Pole Beck had returned to Warsaw, Danzig's private Führer Forster ended a speech in Berlin with this cryptic remark...
...Mussolini and Hitler are now out to try to smash the League, and last week they were assisted by Poland's Foreign Minister Josef Beck, who scarcely conceals his Nazi leanings. Colonel Beck, before leaving Warsaw to visit Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath in Berlin, roundly declared: "The present world crisis is primarily a League crisis, caused by the League's failures. . . . The fact that the League from its inception did not embrace all countries, and particularly the stronger countries,* was the origin of this crisis...
...that Yugoslavia is now tempted to edge away from the constellation of Little Entente satellites of France (Czechoslovakia, Rumania & Yugoslavia), and draw near the Protocol States-which Germany may soon join-were furnished last week by Yugoslav Premier Milan Stoyadinovich who turned up in Berlin the day after Colonel Beck. "We are," declared Stoyadinovich, "aware that Germany plays a decisive role in the Danube basin and that no solution of the so-called Danube problem can be achieved without German co-operation...
...good reception, for plans are afoot for a French loan to erect a great Polish armament and heavy industry centre on the Vistula River. Hence Warsaw gave M. Delbos a festive few days. But Poland is notoriously half in Hitler's arms, and long, lean Colonel Josef Beck, Polish Foreign Minister and player of ticktacktoe with General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, was adamant against obliging M. Delbos by so much as a communique lauding the League of Nations. The most that grudging Beck would do was sign with Delbos a communique that "both nations are equally devoted to their alliance...