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...stopped for 20 minutes in Berlin, he expected what he got, scant attention from anybody except the French Ambassador. But he was chilled to the marrow, when the train pulled up on a well-guarded siding in Warsaw, by the strange stiffness of the top-hatted Poles. Foreign Minister Josef Beck explained that Pilsudski had a little hangover of influenza, proceeded to do the honors with a cold and abstracted air. Into this atmosphere Laval launched his strategic idea that Poland and Germany should join Russia in a consultative pact for non-aggression in Eastern Europe without mutual assistance guarantees...
...Polish Army had known it for weeks, so had the Cabinet, the secret police. Government plans had been drawn up and every preparation made. Yet not until it was all over did the world know that Poland's most powerful son, the shaggy-browed old walrus, Marshal Josef Pilsudski had died of cancer of the stomach and liver. At 9 p. m. a State reception for the French Ambassador was suddenly canceled. Police patrols that already had their orders moved out to strategic street corners. Every theatre, cafe and dance hall in Warsaw was closed, indefinitely. Cabinet Ministers hustled...
Last week this sorest of Baltic feuds was suddenly reported about to be healed by a Polish-Lithuanian peace pact. Partial confirmation came when Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck, instead of scouting the rumors, remarked pointedly that on his latest visit to the League of Nations he had a long chat in Geneva with the Lithuanian Minister to Paris, Dr. Petras Klimas whom he had hitherto avoided like the plague...
Since Warsaw promptly interprets any major political development in terms of the emotions of Poland's beloved Dictator, gruff, walrus-mustached Marshal Josef Pilsudski, major interest was aroused by a remark dropped by one of the Marshal's aides: "Sentimental reasons,among others, prompt him to make peace with Lithuania. His old mother, whom he loved with passionate devotion and gratitude, lies buried on Lithuanian soil. He himself grows old and he cannot visit her grave so long as the Polish-Lithuanian frontier remains closed and relations continue strained...
...Devil Is a Woman (Paramount). Marlene Dietrich is one of the most beautiful and dynamic actresses in Hollywood. Director Josef von Sternberg is an eccentric specialist who enjoys filling his camera lens with shadows, antique furniture, objects d'art and confetti. To most observers, these salient characteristics might suggest that, for the purpose of manufacturing profitable moving pictures, Director von Sternberg and Cinemactress Dietrich constituted less than an ideal partnership. To the executives of Paramount, on the other hand, they justified a series of five pictures (Morocco, Dishonored, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress), few of which made...