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Document · 1934
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Extract from the "Journal des Nations" no. 718: border dispute regarding Amazon basin between Equator and Peru, Equator informed the League of Nations it invited Peru to negotiate, proof of the League of Nations credibility in Latin America, since Equator not being a League of Nations Member State was not obliged to inform the League of Nations of its negotiations with Peru; this article refers to S. Lester when he was President of the League of Nations Council for the Leticia dispute between Colombia and Peru.

Document · 1934.01.25
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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.

Document · 1934.02.28
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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.

Press Cutting "In Danzig"
Document · 1934
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S. Lester appointed High Commissioner for Danzig by the League of Nations Council took up his new post on the 1st of January 1934; Danzig situation: the Free City of Danzig and its surrounding territory were set up as an independent city and state under the Treaty of Versailles for the purpose of giving Poland a port; the role of the League of Nations and of the High Commissioner: the City State was placed under the protection of the League of Nations, which guaranteed her Constitution and to settle any disputes arising owing to the close relationships of Danzig with the Polish Republic, the League of Nations created the office of resident High Commissioner.

Document · 1934
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On S. Lester's appointment and duties as High Commissioner; on the status of Danzig: Free City under the protection of the League of Nations, separated from the rest of the Reich, though its population was overwhelmingly German, the harbour was under the authority of both Danzig and the Poles, the Poles took the precaution of building a new wholly Polish port, at the head of the corridor; tensions between the two peoples because of disputes concerning the alleged smuggling of German goods through Danzig to Poland; the Polish minority in Danzig complained of unfair discrimination and of attacks upon their persons and property; Nazis' victory at the Danzig elections; construction by the Poles of a new railway from Upper Silesia to the Baltic, which avoided Danzig and assured the economic freedom of the country.