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.
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.
Sort of "secret code" established between S. Lester and F. Walters to be able to freely speak on the Danzig situation.
F. Walters: S. Lester's telegram was a tactical move, asking for a written reply.
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.
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.
S. Lester needed an assistant in Danzig: F. Walters suggested a member of the Tanslation Section.
F. Walters busy with the Chaco and Leticia questions, the question of the Assyrians in Iraq, troubles in Liberia, and the Saar Plebiscite, had no time to think about the question of E. Giustiniani and a possible Chef de Cabinet for S. Lester.
Note from S. Lester to F. Walters, dated 16 March, requesting some papers on Danzig to be sent to the Rapporteur; note of 19 March listing the papers from the High Commissioner at Danzig sent to the Rapporteur.
Countersigned by F. Walters.