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1934-1936: conditions in which A. Greiser became President of the Danzig Senate; A. Greiser's and the Senate's intention to make Danzig a National Socialist State; difficult relations between the High Commissioner and the Danzig Senate; A. Greiser was more a soldier than a diplomat; A. Forster, leader of the Party, was the authority in Danzig; Danzig's defiance of the League of Nations was due to A. Forster; S. Lester's talk with Baron von Neurath on A. Forster's activities; attacks on S. Lester in the German press.

Press in brief: the editor of the "Volksstimme" was fined for publishing an article on the "Kartoffel Versorgungs Verband"; A. Forster's speech on the struggle between the National-Socialism and Bolshevism; "Deutscher-Soldaten-Bund" meeting in Danzig with A. Greiser; K. Papée's departure from Danzig.

A. Greiser denied his intention to resign; A. Forster's and A. Greiser's quarrel; note in French on A. Forster's speech entitled "Compte-rendu d'un discours prononcé par M. Forster samedi le 16 novembre 1935".

Deterioration of the situation regarding the Danzig Constitution; wish of the Nazi Party leaders to make Danzig a Nazi city in spite of the Constitution and the League of Nations; Council's recommendations not carried out; press suppressions; Danzig Government's attitude of open defiance of the League of Nations; High Commissioner's report on Gauleiter A. Forster's activities who was a real dictator in Danzig; new election petitioned for by the Opposition Parties; League of Nations' possible means of intervention; S. Lester convinced that the Danzig Government had no intention to keep the Constitution; special Committee of investigation to examine the Danzig laws and their administration.

Report of the talks between L. Krabbe and Krauel dated 6 January 1936 on S. Lester and the situation in Danzig, S. Lester's visit to von Neurath, A. Forster's and A. Greiser's behaviours and relationships with S. Lester.

The conflict in Danzig between S. Lester, the Senate and A. Forster never came to a personal plane, talks between S. Lester and the German Consul General, von Radowitz's reaction.

Extract from the "Vorposten" of 1 February 1936.

Gauleiter (Regional Leader) A. Forster, from Nazi Party; his speech in the presence of Arthur Greiser, President of the Danzig Senate.

Discussions in Berlin on the political situation in Danzig - Berlin received three different versions of events, one from A. Greiser, President of the Danzig Senate, one from A. Forster (Nazi Party) and one from O. von Radowitz (German Consul General) - A. Forster is a source of disturbance, a danger to Danzig, Germany,and Poland, as well as a source of weakness to his own Party - Himmler is an extremist, he supported A. Forster - Death of a Nazi and of two SS (crime or accident?).