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Weyers' note on cases of smuggled cars registered by Danzig owners without paying any customs duty; talk between S. Lester and Neville Laski, leader of the British Jewish organizations, on the Jews' situation in Danzig that was not bad, except trouble arising from A. Forster.

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.

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.

K. Papée on proclamation and on A. Forster's Speech; attacks on meetings of Opposition; Election Committee; imminent arrival of National Socialist
leaders; police control of Zentrum meeting.

Catholic Bishop O'Rourke denounced pagan tendencies, Marxism and Bolshevism in politics; A. Forster's speech: people giving information to the High Commissioner were "traitors and separatists"; A. Greiser's remarks: National Socialism accepted by whole German people except some anti-German elements in Danzig protected by an out-of-date Constitution.

Order issued by the Party organization: police officers not allowed to be members of the SA; in a speech, A. Forster mentioned that members of the Government were also members of the Party, referring to the political crisis in Danzig and the fact that such a thing could not happen in Danzig.