The Archive · 1939

Basic Principles Demanded

The Deputies vigorously applauded when Col. Beck, after an historical analysis of Polish-German relations, proclaimed, "there is no need to mourn for the Polish-German pact," which the Fuehrer recently denounced. Neither Britain nor Poland have any aggressive intentions but they are determined to defend certain basic principles of international lite, he said. 1 "The diplomatic boxes at the Sejm were filled with the United States, British, French, Turkish and Rum-anion Ambassadors and Ministers from Iran, Estonia, Portugal, Greece, Yugoslavia and other countries, but German and Italian diplomats were conspicuous by their absence.

When he heard of the demand for the annexation of Danzig to Germany, when he received no replies to Poland's proposals of March 26 for a common guarantee of rights in the free city and when he learned that the proposals had been interpreted as a refusal to negotiate, he must ask, "what is the real aim of Germany? Is it freedom for the German population of Danzig which is not menaced, or a matter of prestige, or is it matter of barring Poland from *the Baltic from which Poland will not let herself be barred?" Col. Beck asked.

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Complete with an exact model of the Royal quarters installed for the visit to Canada and the TInited States of the King and Queen, this wonderful illuminated model^of H.M.S. Repulse is on exhibit at the Ideal Homes Exhibition in London.

Owing to polit ical circumstances, Their Majesties are nut leaving in the battle cruiser but are sailing today in the Empress of Australia.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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