The Archive · 1939

Col. Joseph Beck, Polish Foreign

Berlin, Jan

Minister, is arriving in Munich this morning and will most likely confer at once with the German Fuehrer, Herr Adolf Hitler. Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister, and the Polish Ambassador, M. Joseph Lipski, left for Munich yesterday.

Well-informed quarters here predicted that Col. Beck would probably complain of the support given in the German press to Ukrainian claims upon-Poland. Herr Hitler, on the other hand, was expected to inquire as to what would be Warsaw attitude in the event of a Franco-

Italian conflict, Observers asserted that Poland would claim participation in any colonial distribution scheme that Hungary and Rumania, informed quarters noted last night on the eve of the Hitler-Beck parleys.

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