Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Polish Corridor near Danzig, the Free City attached to the Polish customs union but ruled by an all-Nazi government. The Germans of Danzig (about 380,000) have long clamored for a "home in the Reich"; Adolf Hitler has long wanted to oblige. But only last week realistic Josef Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, who knows that for every inch Poland gives Germany Fuhrer Hitler will take a mile, was reported to have reminded the Reich that his country would consider the seizure of Danzig a casus belli...
Hats off to TIME for its splendid article on Poland and her Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck [TIME, March 6]. It is certainly the best I have read in any recent publication...
Usually dour and uncommunicative, the Colonel leads a quiet life in Warsaw, lives in new quarters adjoining the Foreign Office, dines about once a week at the swanky Europejski Café, is a steady drinker. The lovely Mme Beck entertains diplomats once monthly - on the 17th. Both Colonel and Mme Beck were married once before, both were divorced. Because they are susceptible to bronchitis, they usually spend several weeks annually on the sunny French Riviera. Last week the Becks and the Cianos were weekending on a gay hunting party in Bialowieza, Europe's largest forest. The Colonel is known...
...Teuton, who have fought no less than 60 wars in the last 1,000 years. The student demonstrations could have been, and probably were, genuine outpourings of indignation. But suspicious correspondents had their own ideas of why they were not quickly and effectively suppressed. They suspected that Colonel Beck, now entertaining the Foreign Minister of one of the axis powers, looked not unfavorably upon riots against the other power in the hope that they might persuade Britain and France that Poland is still worth lending money to. While few of Europe's statesmen like Colonel Beck and absolutely none...