The article was published on February 24, 1938
Poland, Warsaw, February 23
The alliance of Germany and Poland against Russia began to take shape today, when Field Marshal of Germany Hermann Wilhelm Goering was having lunch at Warsaw Castle. With him were the President of Poland Ignacy Mosticki, Field Marshal of the Polish Army Edward Rydz-Smigly, as well as Colonel and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Jozef Beck.
Goering's arrival in Warsaw - the first overseas visit since his appointment as Field Marshal of the Reichsfuehrer Hitler's army (this reshuffle took place on February 4) - caused much unrest in Poland.
Poland is now more accommodating
Foreign diplomats in Warsaw expressed regret that none of them was invited to take part in the "hunting" conference near Bialystok. And based on the information they received, they will notify their countries that the Polish leadership is now much more supportive of the German plans for Russia than during Goering's previous visits to Poland.
The Poles are sure that the war between Germany and Russia is a matter of the coming months, not years. Poland, they say, is in a hurry to strengthen its relationship with Germany, fearing that attempts by the British government to organize a quadripartite agreement between Italy, Germany, France and England could leave Poland among the "snacks" Germany is eyeing in Eastern Europe.
The most alarmed diplomat in Warsaw today is the French ambassador. The Polish opposition press uses Goering's visit to ironically remind France that over the past three years it has provided more than $ 100,000,000 in aid to Poland in order to strengthen it as an ally of Germany. Opposition leaders declare that Poland should by no means afford to ally with Germany in its military adventures, and criticize Beck for his policy of friendly rapprochement with the Nazi regime.
Censorship suppresses dissent
Even less violent articles were banned by the censorship, and a number of more outspoken enemies of the current government were sent to Birch Kartushka, a concentration camp with the harshest conditions of its kind outside of Russia.
Poles generally hate and distrust Germany, and as a guest Göring is as popular in Warsaw as Mussolini would be as a premier in London.
Additional police reserves were called in by the government to provide emergency precautions to keep Goering safe, and today, during his stay, the street on which the German embassy is located was closed to traffic.
