Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minister of Foreign Affairs: Josef Beck...
...gates of the Foreign Office just off Marshal Pilsudski Square, a tall man dressed in black stooped to read one of the posters pasted low on the wall. Passersby began to notice him. By the time he straightened up a crowd was around him. "Beck! Beck!" they cried, cheering and clapping. Colonel Josef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland, smiled, touched his hat, and disappeared into the Foreign Office...
Danzig. Checking every assault, and sometimes counterattacking, Poland, guided chiefly by Foreign Minister Josef Beck has shown Europe's chancelleries that much has been learned of the new war since Czecho-Slovakia was conquered by it. When Nazis interfered with Polish customs officials, Foreign Minister Beck countered by closing the Polish frontier to offending Danzig concerns. When Nazis threatened to precipitate a crisis by disregarding Polish authorities, he sent an ultimatum to the Nazi Danzig Senate, demanding that interference cease-but added a conciliatory offer to negotiate, postponing a showdown. When the Senate agreed to negotiate, the frontier...
...could be gained without war. Leaving this riddle for the world to ponder, he then vanished into the mountains like a figure from Wagnerian mythology. As Poland showed no signs of giving in, it began to look as though the riddle could be solved only if Foreign Minister Josef Beck agreed to its solution...
Chief week-end worry of wily Foreign Minister Josef Beck, returning from his country estate after a brief holiday, was the recruiting of a Danzig Army and the building of fortifications in the Free City. One Nazi stratagem last week seemed to be to take over the city little by little, ousting first one Polish official and then another, eliminating this Polish function and then that, until finally there would be no more Polish officials in Danzig. At some unspecified point in the Nazi eliminations the Poles were prepared to intervene...