Word: becks
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...gaunt, Machiavellian man was arrested at the Rumanian frontier. He was onetime Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck, who had counted Hermann Göring among his hunting friends, escaped Göring's airmen by fleeing to Rumania in September 1939. Several Gestapo attempts to return him to Germany were foiled by Rumanian police. Last week, according to D.N.B., Beck was arrested by Iron Guard and Gestapo agents as he tried to escape "disguised as an Englishman." In his pocket was a British diplomatic passport...
...highlight the main issue in the strategy of defense. That issue is whether the Army and its air arm or the Navy and its adjuncts shall be emphasized. The partisans of conscription say the Army should be stressed now, be reenforced, and eventually have millions of troops at its beck and call; and the conscriptionists have prevailed. The Senate Naval Affairs Committee, the late Smedley Butler, and many of the anti-conscriptionists, bespoke the cause of the naval forces, and they have lost the debate...
Before the Los Angeles Advertising Club, Speaker Thomas Hambly Beck, president of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine) dramatically gave up the British ghost: "The bombing that is going on is so terrific that no people can withstand it. In my opinion, the British Empire will be finished by the end of this month...
European exiles who arrived last week to take up temporary residence in the U. S.: Elsa Schiaparelli, Parisian couturiere (to lecture and get some clothes-she "hasn't a hat to her name"); Madame Josef Beck, wife of Poland's onetime Foreign Minister (now "somewhere in Rumania"); ex-Empress Zita of Austria and her youngest daughter. Archduchess Elisabeth (more ex-royal children to follow later); French Composer Darius Milhaud (Le pauvrc Matelot) with his wife and 10-year-old son; Novelist Julian Green (The Closed Garden, The Dark Journey}, pessimistic Paris-born American who has preferred...
Brown (Pullman Porters and Maids Protective Association), Dave Beck (Teamsters' Union tsar, and force-extraordinary in Seattle politics). Said one hopeful MRA missionary: "If MRA can convince a man like Beck, it may do the same for Hitler...