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...facts. On previous days he had several times received the Prime Minister of Lithuania, stocky, spiky-haired Professor Augustine Valdemaras. There had been a four-hour session of the League Council at which the issue had been argued hotly back and forth between M. Valdemaras and August Zaleski, Foreign Minister of Poland, who preceded Pilsudski to Geneva. The Council had even laid down provisional terms of settlement?terms not wholly agreed to by stubborn Prime Minister Valdemaras...
...Premier Valdemaras promptly denied that Lithuanian troops had been mobilized against Poland, then ordered his bags packed, and set out for Geneva to enlist the Council's aid. Simultaneously, Marshal Pilsudski was said to have declared that he might "at any moment" hurry after Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski, who was charged with representing his country on the Council. Even stolid Swiss were appalled at the possibility that Premiers Pilsudski and Valdemaras, both choleric characters, might meet like colliding comets in the musty League Secretariat building. Meanwhile many a U. S. citizen asked: "What's the trouble between...
...British memorandum asking what would be the attitude of the German Government in the event that Soviet Russia should attack Poland, and France or Britain should wish to rush troops to Poland's defense over German soil. When these Russian matters were up for discussion, Foreign Minister August Zaleski of Poland was to be seen anxiously pattering in and out of M. Briand's bedchamber. When within, he often sat, rumor told, close at the bedside of M. Briand, attentive to his every word This was natural, this was prudent for France is the avowed protectress of Poland...
Observers thought it certain that Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski must have obtained strong assurances of support from France and Britain. This he did, presumably, at one of the secret sessions last week of the Council of the League of Nations...
...During the week French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, both representing their countries at the Council table, made good use of leisure moments to persuade German Foreign Minister Stresemann and Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski, to resume pourparlers for a German-Polish commercial entente which had seemed to be breaking down of late. Once again was seen the peculiar, inherent importance of League sessions-they bring into peaceful personal contact statesmen who might otherwise quarrel over the telegraph...