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Document · 1933.10.19
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Extract from the "Cork Examiner": S. Lester's reputation, qualities, and success as the permanent representative of the Irish Free State to the League of Nations, made him fit to govern the Free City of Danzig as High Commissioner; chronology of events on Danzig.

Press Cutting "Danzig"
Document · 1933.10.27
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Extract from the "Dublin Evening Mail": S. Lester's qualities made him fit to govern the Free City of Danzig as High Commissioner, a post that demanded tact and diplomacy; S. Lester's appointment was supported by J. Simon, the British Foreign Secretary.

Document · 1933.10.27
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Extract from the "Irish Times" on S. Lester's appointment as Danzig High Commissioner; explanation of the choice of S. Lester's election; short description of the relationships between Danzig and Poland.

Document · 1933.10.27
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Extract from the "Irish Times": S. Lester appointed High Commissioner of Danzig by the League of Nations' Council; Poles' protest against S. Lester's election; S. Lester supported by J. Simon, leader of the British delegation at Geneva; Danzig High Commissioner's duties; S. Lester's short biography; chronology of events on Danzig.

Document · 1933.09.29
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Extract from the "Irish Press" on the end of term of the Irish Free State as a temporary three-year member of the League of Nations Council; the Irish representative S. Lester was put in charge, by the Council, of the Committee watching over the disputes in South America.

Document · 1933.09.29
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Extract from the "Irish Independent" on the end of term of the Irish Free State as a temporary three-year member of the League of Nations Council; the Irish representative S. Lester was put in charge, by the Council, of the Committee watching over the disputes in South America; photograph of S. Lester.

Document · 1933.09.29
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Extract from the "Irish Times" on the end of term of the Irish Free State as a temporary three-year member of the League of Nations Council; the Irish representative S. Lester was put in charge, by the Council, of the Committee watching over the disputes in South America.