The Polish Foreign Minister agreed to conversations with the Reich provided they be "conducted with peaceful intentions and peaceful methods of action, "It such conversations materialize, the Polish Government, according to its custom, will regard to problem objectively with the view to experiences of recent times but without refusing its best will," he said "There is only one thing in the life of men, nations and states which is without price and that is honour."
He declared that the German proposal for the extension of the nonaggression pact to 25 years had not been forwarded in any definite form or in any recent conversation. "We stood, and we stand firmly on the grounds that the rights and interests Of our overseas trade and our maritime policy are in Danzig."
M. Waclaw Makowski, the Speaker, opened the Sejm at 11.15 am. and introduced Col. Beck, who was given a long ovation. Col. Beck started speaking at 11.16 a.m. and concluded at 1142 a.m.
The Parliament building began filling thirty minutes before the hour set for the speech which marked a milestone in the Sejm's 21 years of existence. The actual Parliament Chamber was enlarged to accommodate more than double the usual number of spectators, while the diplomatic box section was also enlarged.
There was no particular excitement in Warsaw streets, although coffee houses and several shops installed loud speakers and announced that the Foreign Ministers speech "can be heard here."—United Press.
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