Reich Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels will be named German Ambassador to Poland, it was announced today by the Kurjer Codzienny, usually well informed daily here.
The appointment of Goebbels to this post will involve the changing of the Warsaw and Berlin legations into embassies, as Germany at the present time is represented in Poland only by a minister.
Judging from the cool reception Goebbels received during his recent junket to Warsaw, which was marked by a fresh outbreak of Nara and Endek anti-Semitic demonstrations, it is uncertain how the Polish government will react to this development.
However, raising Poland from the status of a nation meriting a minister to one worthy of an ambassador is held to be a clever move on the part of the Nazi regime to kill two birds with one stone. On the one hand it will serve to mollify Poland and put her in the proper mood to receive Goebbels cordially. And on the other it is expected to make Goebbels more receptive to the idea.
Earlier reports had stated that Goebbels would be the next ambassador to Soviet Russia.
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