Negotiations on Danzig delayed; question of S. Lester's return to Danzig to clear up private affairs; question of a successor to S. Lester in Danzig.
S. Lester's annual report; post-September events such as political parties, decrees, weakening opposition; possible Polish-Danzig agreement; Danzig's future; Poland's policy; fear of a recrudescence of the Danzig-Polish conflict.
A. Eden's comments on Anglo-Irish relations, de Valera, and Craigavon.
Danzig's future: talk between S. Lester and J. Beck on the appointment of a new High Commissioner; S. Lester's ambiguous position.
Streiter was Chief of the Danzig Press Bureau and one of H. Rauschning's closest collaborators in Foreign Affairs, the accusation seemed to be his disclosure to the Polish Press of the five points presented to H. Rauschning by A. Greiser.
L. Krabbe enquired S. Lester if he had the intention of asking that his periodical reports should be made available for the press, what had not previously been done, but the question arose because H. Rosting, who was acting High Commissioner last year, had expressed a desire that his last report should be circulated; S. Lester had not thought about the matter; H. Rosting's appointment as acting High Commissioner in Danzig was only due to the sudden death of Count Gravina and the impossibility of the Council to appoint immediately a successor; H. Rosting's childish behaviour.
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.
Von Radowitz was the German Consul General; A. Greiser's speech denouncing the Opposition as "Traitors"; the Danzig police spied on S. Lester's visitors.
Polish sailors in uniform coming to do their training before joining the Harbour Police: no permission for them to enter in uniform; visit of the Danzig Harbour by General Hallem.