The Archive · 1939

Sovereignty Stressed As Cardinal Condition

Warsaw, Apr. 12.

M. Josef Lipsky, Polish Ambassador to the Reich, left this evening to return to Berlin after his brief one-ice parleys with Colonel Josef gay visit here during which he held

the Polish Foreign Minister, M. Lipsky will immediately visit Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, and will emphasize the Polish Government's readiness to negotiate for a settlement at Polish-German problems, it was learned. Warsaw, he will declare, is ready to discuss possible modification of status of the Free City of Danzig and to €xamine proposals for German toad trafic facilities through the Polish Corridor on the cardinal condition that Polish integrity and sovereignty must be inviolable, it was stated.

No Demands but Hints One informed source disclosed that Berlin so far has refrained from forwarding any specific suggestions and only repeatedly stressed that Ger-mono-Polish relations would' deteriorate if Poland entered the system at Powers who attempt to encircle diplomatic activity was evident in Warsaw today as M. Lipsky met Colonel Beck to receive final instructions. am Sir William Howard Kennard, Bntish Ambassador, and Mr. Shuihi Gakoh, Japanese Ambassador, called on Colonel Beck in the course of the day. Count Szembeck, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, received M. 4

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