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...Jews, which she wants no more than Germany wants hers. That shrewd Colonel Beck was not putting all his diplomatic eggs in the Italian basket, however, was evident from his announcement that he would go this month to London, where he will meet, besides British statesmen, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet. At the same time there was talk of a $50,000,000 British commercial loan to Poland. A diplomat of less cunning-like, for instance, Eduard Benes, who put all Czechoslovakia's eggs in the democracies' basket and got them smashed-would long ago have steered...
...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 trust him, no seasoned diplomat of Europe's hard-boiled chancelleries can fail to admire him. In his own way, he does his job superbly well...
...twenty years unceasing strife between Arabs and Jews has harassed the statesmen of Europe and the Near East. In her proposal to create an independent Arab-controlled Palestine, Great Britain has arrived at a feasible solution of this seemingly insoluble post-war racial problem. Although granting the Moslems their ardently desired national state, England intends to insist that Jewish minority rights in the Holy Land be maintained...
Biggest headache to foreign statesmen is trying to figure out what Americans think of them and the wars they are thinking of fighting...
Surprise. At this point both France and Britain got an unpleasant surprise. Generalissimo Franco, it appeared, did not prize British and French recognition as highly as British and French statesmen thought he would. His motto was: "Recognition first, negotiations second." As to declaring an amnesty, he wanted the Loyalists' "unconditional surrender...