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BKITAIN AND FKANCE DEPUTIES CHEER PACTS FIRM FOREIGN POLICY NO YIELDING TO NAZIS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May 7, 5.5 p.m.) WARSAW, May 0 The Polish Foreign Minister, Colonel Beck, in the course of what was his maiden speech in Parliament yesterday was cheered 'by the deputies when he referred to the agreements between Poland and Britain and Poland and France.

The Minister spoke slowly and quietly throughout. Only once he banged his desk, when he declared that Poland refused to be shut out from the Baltic. At this there was frantic cheering and crie3 of: "Long live the Polish Baltic." "Even for a man of the simplest reasoning," declared Colonel Beck, "it is clear that what. was decisive was neither the character, purpose nor scope of tlie agreement between Poland and Britain, but the mere fact that an agreement had been concluded.

"This is important for an appreciation of the intentions of Germany's policy. In order to reach a proper estimate of the situation we should first ask: What is the real aim of it all?" Danzig's Dependence on Poland

Turning to Danzig, Colonel Beck said the Free City was not invented by tho Versailles Treaty, but had existed for centuries, because of a positive cleavage between Polish and German interests. German merchants assured the city's prosperity and development, thanks to Polish overseas trade. The city's very raison d'etre was the decisive fact that it was situated at the mouth of Poland's only great river, and now it lay on the main railway connecting Poland with the Baltic. "It is the truth," said the Minister, "that no new formulas can change the population of Danzig to-day. It is predominantly German, but its livelihood and prosperity depend upon Poland's economic potentialities. We stand firmly by the rights and interests of our overseas trade and maritime policy in Danzig.

"Seeking reasonable and conciliatory solutions, we have purposely not endeavoured to exert any influence on the free, national, ideological and cultural development of Danzig's German majority. Concessions made to Germans Remarking that Poland would not let herself be barred from the Baltic, Colonel Beck said: "The same consideration concerns the communication across our province of Pomerania. I insist on the term 'province of Pomerania.' The word 'corridor* is an artificial invention, because it is ancient Polish land, with a significant' percentage of German colonists.

"We have given the Reich full railway facilities. We have allowed Germans to travel without Customs or passport formalities from the Reich to East Prussia. We have suggested an extension of these facilities to road transport. "We have no reason to obstruct«the Germans in communications with their eastern province, but on the contrary we have no ground whatever for restricting our sovereignty over our own territory.

FIRMNESS APPLAUDED British Wireless LONDON, May 5 Official quarters in London state that the report of Colonel Beck's speech has been received with lively satisfaction. It is felt tNat Colonel Beck made tho position of Poland clear and that he had done so in firm but yet studiously moderate terms. While Colonel Beck made it clear that Poland will not sacrifice interests which she believes would be vital to her independence, yet at the same time he closed no doors, and is ready to solve outstanding issues by tho method of negotiation.