TY - JOUR
TI - Józef Beck about his Foreign Partners and in Their Eyes
AU - Kornat, Marek
TI - Józef Beck about his Foreign Partners and in Their Eyes
AB - 
	The article deals with the opinions of Józef Beck on his foreign partners and the perception of his personality in the eyes of foreign political and diplomatic spheres. The text was created in connection with the biography of the Polish minister of foreign affairs prepared by the author (together with Prof. Mariusz Wołos). As a politician, he was an extremely controversial person. Due to his policy, he aroused dislike especially in Paris, Moscow and Prague. Many assessments devoted to him have been preserved, which is confirmed by sources. There are many reflections about his personality, and many sources testify to a dislike towards him. He was attributed to excessive ambitions, a kind of arrogance and excessive self-confidence and prejudice against France. Beck’s opinions about his foreign partners are not very numerous, and in any case few of them are confirmed by sources. He did not particularly value his Central European (regional) colleagues: Benesz and Titulescu. Beck undeservedly gave high marks to the foreign ministers of the Western powers: Eden and Delbos. He trusted Swedish Minister Sandler and Romanian Victor Antonescu very much. An analysis of foreign opinions about Beck and his own judgements about his partners seriously supplements our knowledge of his seven years of work as a Polish minister of foreign affairs in the turbulent time of the international crisis that took place in Europe in the years 1933–1939.
VL - 2020
IS - Tom XXIX
PY - 2020
SN - 2451-4993
C1 - 2543-733X
SP - 81
EP - 97
DO - 10.4467/2543733XSSB.20.007.12194
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/ssb/article/jozef-beck-o-swych-partnerach-zagranicznych-oraz-w-ich-oczach
KW - Poland 1918–1939
KW - Józef Beck
KW - international relations
KW - images and stereotypes