Deliverd to the Institue of World Organization, American University regarding the status of Danzig.
Radio interview on Danzig situation.
List of documents by year.
History, general situation, High Commissioner's job.
List of newspapers, party affiliations, dates of suppression, periods of suppression and remarks.
Extracts from different newspapers such as the "Danziger Neueste Nachrichten", the "Vorposten", the "Gazeta Gdanska", "Kurjer Poranny", "Polska Zbrojna" and "Naprzod", "Kurjer Warszawski", etc. on Strautmann's speech on the action against the League of Nations High Commissioner and the suppression of the Opposition Parties; attacks on Polish nationals in Danzig; attacks at Schöneberg; Gauleiter of Pomerania's and Reichsleiter Grimm's speeches; Poland and Danzig; A. Greiser that had left Danzig, etc.
Letters from Karl Formell, editor of the "Danziger Volkszeitung", ex-Senator, dated 31 March 1934 to the High Commissioner S. Lester, and to the President of the Senate, H. Rauschning, as well as a letter from IA Wienke to the Senate of the Danzig Free City, and a document by the Zentralkomitee der Katholiken der Diözese Danzig, dated 29 March 1933.
This unedited and uncorrected typescript of the diary and papers of Sean Lester covers, in part, the period when he was League of Nations High Commissioner in Danzig (1935-1937), Deputy Secretary-General (1937-1940) and Secretary-General (1940-1947, by decision of the General Assembly in 1946) of the League of Nations in Geneva.
The material bound in this "Diary" is by no means complete, even for the 1935-1941 period. Some time after the "Diary" was bound, a further box of papers, covering most of S. Lester's life, was found, including: private diary entries, general S. Lester's notes, correspondence, press, etc. In fact, some of the most important papers for 1935-1941 were found and are not therefore in the "Diary" - for instance as regards the 1936 crisis.
Lester, Sean (1888-1959).Biography of S. Lester presented in six parts: early life, Geneva, Danzig, return to Geneva and war, San Francisco, and return to Ireland.