Extracts from the "Hamburgischer Correspondent" headed "Empfang Lesters in Danzig"; "Der Westen" (Berlin) entitled "Der neue Völkerbundskommissar in Danzig"; "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" (Berlin) entitled "Dienstantritt Lesters in Danzig"; and "Forster Tageblatt" (Forst) entitled "Der neue Völkerbundskommissar" on S. Lester welcomed at Danzig and his new duties .
Press interview: further to an article published by the "Krakauer Illustrierte Kurier" of 24 January 1934, under the title "Mr. Forster must disappear from Danzig", the Danzig reporter of the "Deutsche Zeitung" asked President H. Rauschning to answer the three following questions: 1. Danzig's policy of peace 2. Measures concerning formation of prices 3. State and Party.
Extract from the "Danziger Neuste Nachrichten" on the political crisis between H. Rauschning, President of the Danzig national-socialist Senate and A. Forster, chief of the national-socialist party of the Free City of Danzig: H. Rauschning's resignation denied.
Extract from the "Danziger Volkstimme" on the political crisis between H. Rauschning, President of the Danzig national-socialist Senate and A. Forster, chief of the national-socialist party of the Free City of Danzig: H. Rauschning's resignation denied.
Extract from "Le Temps" on the political crisis between H. Rauschning, President of the Danzig national-socialist Senate and A. Forster, chief of the national-socialist party of the Free City of Danzig: H. Rauschning's resignation denied.
Extract from "Le Matin" on the political crisis between H. Rauschning, President of the Danzig national-socialist Senate and A. Forster, chief of the national-socialist party of the Free City of Danzig: A. Forster's desire to supplant H. Rauschning.
Extract from the "Journal des Nations" on the conflict between H. Rauschning and Gauleiter A. Forster leading to H. Rauschning's resignation and A. Forster's victory, who was not even originating from Danzig and who requested the suppression of all opposition parties as well as of the League of Nations' supervision over the Free City of Danzig.
After the new drastic decrees issued by the Danzig Nazi Government abolishing the rights and freedom guaranteed by the Danzig Constitution, A. Forster, Nazi leader of Danzig, declared in a violent speech attacking the League of Nations High Commissioner that Danzig no longer needed S. Lester's help.
On S. Lester's telegram of protest to the League of Nations refused by a Danzig telegraph clerk, because the telegram would not have pleased A. Forster, the Danzig Nazi leader.
A. Forster's declaration that the Danzig Senate would henceforth ignore the League of Nations and its High Commissioner to settle the problems in Danzig; the Polish Government requested the protection of Polish citizens' rights in Danzig.