Word: lipski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Josef Lipski, former Polish Ambassador to Germany, to a Mme Rosset, who had just squeaked out of Warsaw by plane before the Germans captured it; in Paris. Day after his wedding, Mr. Lipski went off to enlist as a private in the Polish Legion in France...
When Hitler returned from his triumphal tour of Czecho-Slovakia last March, he was high-spirited, buoyant, talkative. Arriving in Berlin, he summoned Josef Lipski, solemn-visaged Polish Ambassador. Whipped up to "a mood of immense elation," Hitler chattered cheerily on his trip, his impressions of conquered Prague, suddenly fell silent and announced ominously: "The time has come to flatten out the obstacles to the permanent friendship of Germany and Poland...
Ambassador Lipski listened dutifully to Hitler's proposals for a friendly flattening, raced straight to the station, caught an express to Warsaw, where Foreign Minister Josef Beck's auto was waiting to rush him to M. Beck's home. Three hours later Polish police were pulling reservists from their beds. French and British Ambassadors were summoned to hear M. Lipski's account of Herr Hitler's travelogue...
POLAND AND GERMANY (Jan. 26, 1934) pledged mutual non-aggression and promised to defend each other against attack with a ten-year pact signed in Berlin by Polish Ambassador Lipski. In the Reich this renunciation for a decade of German designs on the Polish Corridor rates as Adolf Hitler's most unpopular policy...
...same day Poland's walrus-mustached de facto Dictator, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, benignly approved a treaty signed in Berlin by Polish Ambassador Josef Lipski and German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath. If ratified and observed in good faith by both nations, this new ten-year non-aggression pact ends for that period the possibility of war over the "Polish Corridor Question." It pledges Germany and Poland for the next decade "under no circumstances" to "proceed to the application of force," to settle mutual disputes...