Józef Beck

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Józef Beck ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 4 October 1894 – 5 June 1944) was a Polish statesman who served the Second Republic of Poland as a diplomat and military officer. A close associate of Józef Piłsudski, Beck is most famous for being Polish foreign minister in the 1930s and for largely setting Polish foreign policy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He tried to fulfill Piłsudski's dream of making Poland the leader of a regional coalition, but he was widely disliked and distrusted by other governments.Template:Sfn Template:Sfn He was involved in territorial disputes with Lithuania and Czechoslovakia. With his nation caught between two large hostile powers (Germany and the Soviet Union), Beck sometimes pursued accommodation with them and sometimes defied them. He attempted to take advantage of their mutual antagonism but then formed an alliance with the United Kingdom and France. Both declared war on Germany after its invasion of Poland in 1939. After the Soviet Union also invaded Poland, Beck and the rest of his government evacuated to Romania.

Early lifeEdit

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Józef Beck, 1926

Beck was born into a Calvinist (Protestant) family whose forebears had emigrated from Flanders to Poland in the 16th century, during the rule of Polish King Stephen Báthory. When World War I started, Beck was a student at a college of engineering.<ref name="Mackiewicz0">Stanislaw Mackiewicz, Colonel Beck and his policy, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1944, p. 7.</ref> After the outbreak of the war, Beck was a member of the clandestine Polish Military Organization (Polska Organizacja Wojskowa, or POW), founded in October 1914 by Piłsudski. Joining in 1914Template:Sfn Beck served until 1917 in the First Brigade of the Polish Legions and was an aide to Piłsudski. When the brigade was interned, Beck escaped.

After Poland had regained its independence, Beck was assigned as a commander of an artillery battery and assigned to the General Staff. Beck served as military attaché to France between 1922 and 1923.Template:Sfn The French disliked Beck to the point of spreading lies about him, such that he was a Soviet agent.Template:Sfn He helped to carry out the May 1926 military coup d'état, which brought Piłsudski to de facto governmental power.Template:Sfn

In 1926–1930, Beck served as chief of staff to Poland's Minister of Military Affairs, and in 1930–1932, he served as Vice Prime Minister and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.Template:Sfn Groomed by Piłsudski to implement Poland's foreign policy, he in 1932 took office as Minister of Foreign Affairs,<ref name="Mackiewicz0"/>Template:Sfn<ref name="Stachura1">Peter Stachura, Poland, 1918-1945, p. 116.</ref> a post that he would hold until the outbreak of World War II.<ref>Norman Davies, God's Playground Volume II, Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 430.</ref>

Foreign ministerEdit

Beck had been dealt a weak hand. The historian David G. Williamson argues that Poland with 35 million people had a large population but a thin industrial base. Furthermore, its army of 283,000 men was ill-equipped, short of artillery and poorly trained and relied heavily on cavalry because it lacked enough mechanisation.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Finally it faced long borders with two powerful dictatorships, Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. Historian Richard Overy wrote that of all the new states in Europe: Template:Bquote

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Visit to Soviet Union, 1934. From right: Maxim Litvinov, Avel Yenukidze, Mikhail Kalinin, Józef Beck, Juliusz Łukasiewicz.

In his international diplomacy, Beck sought to maintain a fine balance in Poland's relations with its two powerful neighbours. In July 1932, he concluded the Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact and, in January 1934, the German–Polish declaration of non-aggression.<ref name="Stachura1"/><ref>I. Lukes and E. Goldstein, eds., The Munich Crisis, 1938 (Frank 2006), pp. 49–50.</ref>

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With Hermann Göring, 1935

Beck complained that while Poland and Czechoslovakia were legally bound by treaty to respect the rights of their respective German minorities, the Polish minorities in Germany and the Soviet Union were not so protected.<ref>Tadeusz Piotrowski, Poland's Holocaust, McFarland, 1998, Template:ISBN, p. 4.</ref> In addition, Beck resented that countries, such as Germany, used the Minorities Treaty to exert pressure and become involved in the internal affairs of Poland.<ref>Peter Stachura, Poland, 1918-1945, Template:ISBN, p. 97.</ref> In September 1934, Beck renounced the Minorities Treaty after the Soviet Union had been admitted to the League of Nations.<ref>Count Edward Raczynski, In Allied London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962, p. 2.</ref>

After Piłsudski's death in May 1935, a power-sharing agreement was entered into by the various Piłsudskiite factions, led by General (later Marshal) Edward Rydz-Śmigły, President Ignacy Mościcki and Beck himself. The three individuals effectively dominated the Sanacja (Sanation) and collectively ruled Poland until the outbreak of the Second World War. Beck had a more-or-less free hand in formulating Poland's foreign policy.<ref name="Stachura1"/> The stability of the ruling group was weakened because of personal conflicts, and none of the three men managed to assert his dominance in the late 1930s completely. The oligarchy from 1935 to 1939 is often described by historians as a "dictatorship without a dictator".

Strategic ideasEdit

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Hitler and Beck, 1937

Beck was hostile to the League of Nations and did not think it could help Poland.Template:Citation needed France wanted some arrangement with Poland but distrusted Beck and so he looked in new directions.Template:Sfn He explored the possibility of realising Piłsudski's concept of Międzymorze ("Between-seas"), a federation of central and eastern European countries stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, indeed in later variants from the Arctic Ocean to the Mediterranean. Such a coalition between Germany in the west and the Soviet Union in the east might have been strong enough to deter both from military intervention. Beck realised that for the immediate future there was no realistic chance of building such a force and so he was prepared to settle in 1937–1938 for a diplomatic bloc referred to as a "Third Europe", led by Poland, which might become the nucleus of a Międzymorze federation. Beck's "Third Europe" diplomatic concept comprised a bloc made up of Poland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania.Template:Sfn

Both Italy and Hungary preferred to align themselves with Germany, rather than Poland.
The dispute between Romania and Hungary over Transylvania doomed efforts to include them in a common bloc.
The desire of both Italy and Hungary to partition Yugoslavia blocked any effort to include Rome, Budapest and Belgrade in an alliance.
None of the other four states that was meant to form the "Third Europe" with Poland was interested in accepting Polish leadership.

From 1935 to 1939, Beck supported German claims against Czechoslovakia by citing purported mistreatment of Polish minorities in Czechoslovakia. In January 1938, he demanded publicly that the Poles living in Czechoslovakia be granted the rights enjoyed by the Germans.<ref>Jan Karski, The Great Powers & Poland, 1919-1945: from Versailles to Yalta (1985), pp. 213–214</ref> In 1937, Beck had also begun a diplomatic offensive in favour of Slovak independence.<ref name="gromada">Thaddeus V. Gromada, "Slovak Nationalists and Poland during the Interwar Period, Jednota Annual Furdek (1979), Vol. 18, pp. 241–253.</ref> He supported Hitler's position in the Munich agreement in 1938. Within days, Poland invaded and seized Teschen, an industrial district of Czechoslovakia with 240,000 people, where ethnic Poles formed only 35%.<ref name="gromada"/><ref>Richard A. Woytak, "Polish Military Intervention into Czechoslovakian Teschen and Western Slovakia in September–November 1938", East European Quarterly (1972) 6#3 pp. 376–387.</ref>

1939: German invasionEdit

In 1937, Hitler continued to assure Beck that Germany had no claims on Danzig,Template:Sfn but at the start of 1939, Hitler changed his earlier position and now laid claim to Danzig, adding that military force would not be used.Template:Sfn

Beck played a decisive role in early 1939 by staunchly refusing Hitler's demands to subordinate Poland and to turn it into a German puppet state. Hitler demanded for Poland to give away strategic territories to Germany and to join the Anti-Comintern Pact, which was directed against the Soviet Union. Beck rejected Hitler's demands for annexation of Polish Pomorze (Pomerania), which would have cut off Polish access to the sea and its main trade route, effectively making the Polish economy dependent on Germany. He also rejected demands for an extraterritorial rail and highway corridor that was to run to East Prussia and the Free City of Danzig, in exchange for vague promises regarding trade and annexation of territories inhabited by Ukrainians and Belarusians in the Soviet Union after a future war. While Hitler had been planning to annex Polish territory for several years, he finally decided to go ahead with his plans for war by early September 1939.Template:Sfn Template:Sfn

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5 May 1939—Beck addresses the Sejm, rejecting Hitler's demands.

Beck was surprised when Britain, looking for a pretext to confront Germany, announced at the end of March 1939 that it would defend Poland from German attack.Template:Citation needed France also offered its support, but both countries knew there was very little they could do if Germany invaded Poland.Template:Vague Template:Sfn

In April 1939, Beck was in London to negotiate the terms of the British-Polish aid treaty.<ref>Jozef Garlinski, Poland in the Second World War, p. 6.</ref> Beck famously voiced his refusal of German demands in a speech on 5 May 1939:<ref>see Roman Kuźniar (2009) Poland's Foreign Policy After 1989 p. 19</ref>

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Similarly, Beck refused a request from the Soviets to allow Soviet forces to enter the country, which was made during talks in which the Polish side did not take part. A third proposal soon followed, once again elaborated by Britain, which promised support to the Polish government if the country's borders were endangered. This time around, Beck accepted it.Template:Sfn Template:Sfn According to Joseph E. Davies, the Polish government underestimated German military power.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

As a result, Hitler's diplomatic efforts shifted to the Soviet Union and secured the German-Soviet alliance in August 1939. Known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it secured Soviet support in a war, a heavy flow of Soviet food and oil and an agreement to partition Poland and the Baltic states. By now, many observers realised that war between Germany and Poland had become imminent.<ref>Donald Cameron Watt, How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939 (1989), p. 466.</ref>

World War IIEdit

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Graves of Józef Beck and Jan Jankowski, Powązki Military Cemetery, Warsaw

Following the invasion of Poland by Germany on 1 September 1939, the start of World War II, Beck called on Poland's allies, France and Britain, to enter the war to support Poland. In spite of the agreement between them, France and Britain did little to help Poland directly though both declared war two days after the German invasion.Template:Sfn

After the Soviet Union attacked Poland from the east on 17 September 1939, Beck withdrew to Romania, together with the rest of the Polish government.<ref name="Mackiewicz0"/> In Romania, he was interned by the authorities at a hotel in Brașov. It was there that he wrote a volume of memoirs, Ostatni raport (Final Report).

Melchior Wańkowicz, a popular Polish journalist, met Beck in the autumn of 1939 during his internment in Romania. This is how he described the meeting:<ref>Melchior Wańkowicz, Po klęsce. Prószyński i Spółka, Warszawa 2009, p. 612.</ref>

Beck was locked in a golden cage of a luxurious hotel in Brașov, where he and his entourage occupied one floor. He was closely guarded: whenever he went out, hordes of Allied, German and Romanian agents followed him (...) I met him at 5 in the afternoon, and our conversation continued until almost two in the morning, with a dinner break. Beck emphasized achievements of the last month of his post: a military treaty with England, Hungarian refusal to let German troops pass through their territory, droit de residence and droit de passage, granted by Romanian government. Beck believes in a solid coalition, and that we would sit at a negotiating table as partners, while Czechs would remain outside. He does not care about the fact that Lloyd George stated that Poland did not deserve help as a reactionary country. He is not bothered by the fact that Lord Halifax wants to recreate the Curzon Line. Instead, he points out that when British king gave a speech on the radio, only English, French and Polish anthems were played (...) Since I cannot tolerate this kind of wishful thinking, I ask him whether he had ever seriously considered German attack. He keeps saying that he had met Hitler several times, that Hitler backs out of discussions, that he can easily be talked into different things, that he was influenced by von Ribbentrop.{{#if:|{{#if:|}}
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Beck's death announcement

Beck died in Singureni, Romania,Template:Sfn on 5 June 1944, after developing tuberculosis.Template:Sfn Beck was survived by his son Andrzej Beck, who was active in the Polish community in the United States until his death in 2011.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In May 1991, Beck's remains were repatriated to Poland and interred at Warsaw's Powązki Military Cemetery.

HonorsEdit

French Legion of Honour in the grade of Chevalier (1923) and in the grade of Officier (1927)Template:Sfn
Order of Saint Sava I degree<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

NotesEdit

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SourcesEdit

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Cienciala, Anna. "The Munich Crisis of 1938: Plans and Strategy in Warsaw in the Context of Western Appeasement of Germany" in The Munich crisis, 1938: Prelude to World War II, edited by Igor Lukes and Erik Goldstein, London, Frank Cass, Inc., 1999. pp. 48–81
Cienciala, Anna M. Poland the Western Powers, 1938-1939. A Study in the Interdependence of Eastern and Western Europe (U. Toronto Press, 1968) online
Greenwood, Sean. "The Phantom Crisis: Danzig, 1939," in The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered: A.J.P. Taylor and the Historians, edited by Gordon Martel, London, Routledge, 1999. pp. 247–72
Gromada, Thaddeus V. "Joseph Beck in the Light of Recent Polish Historiography," Polish Review (1981) 26#3 pp 65–73
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