In the absence of the Secretary-General and of L. Krabbe, who was in the Saar to start the Plebiscite Commission, F. Walters acknowledged receipt of S. Lester's letters to the Secretary-General, he assured S. Lester that the previous High Commissioner at Danzig had similar problems; Danzig-Polish new agreement; Lawless seemed to have missed the chance of putting his name forward for the Saar; F. Walters and the Chaco question.
F. Walters informed J. Avenol of his talk with S. Lester on the Agenda questions; J. Avenol's reply: willing to help S. Lester if he needed the Council's support to carry on his task.
F. Walters: S. Lester's telegram was a tactical move, asking for a written reply.
- Aide-mémoire;
- Projet de résolution concernant les relations entre l'Italie et l'Ethiopie;
- Jan. 1935: Lettre de la Délégation éthiopienne signée par Téclé Hamariate;
- Correspondence with Pilotti, Walters.
S. Lester requested F. Walters' and the Secretary-General's views regarding the procedures: a report by the Rapporteur would have been the normal procedure, S. Lester proposed the appointment of a Committee to report on the Zentrum Party's petition and Catholic Priests' petition, as well as to study some Danzig constitutional points, or that the Rapporteur wished the matter to be adjourned to enable him to study the legal points raised, S. Lester thought either of these procedures would be better than the mere withdrawal of the questions from the Council Agenda.
Letter referring to the story reported by the "Journal des Nations" on a report S. Lester would have made to the League of Nations Secretariat on incidents in the Volkstag during its dissolution meeting.
Regarding Letters from S. Lester.
Elections in Danzig made it difficult to pay a visit to S. Lester.
Enclosed is F. Walters' reply in English of 30 April 1935: Danzig questions to the Council, Rapporteur's report, F. Walters' wish to write to W. Strang about all this.