Nazis' new blow in Danzig: new measures taken by the Danzig Nazi Government, presided over by A. Greiser, abolished the freedom guaranteed by the Constitution of the Free City, such as political freedom, freedom of the Opposition press, the right to join associations and the rights of the Jews, and it also established the Gestapo in Danzig, giving the police special powers.
Extract from the "Daily Telegraph": promulgation by the Senate of new laws abolishing most of the civic rights guaranteed by the Danzig Constitution; Poland's new attitude towards the Nazis in Danzig with Warsaw demonstrations in favour of an extension of Poland's rights in the Free City and Poland's commitment as the League of Nations mandatory to maintain the position of the League of Nations and its High Commissioner.
Extract from the "Daily Herald": Danzig Nazi Government issued decrees turning virtually the Free City into a totalitarian State; summoning of a special meeting of the League of Nations Council on Danzig affairs; demonstration all over Poland to protest against these decrees.
Extract from the "Manchester Guardian": repressive measures taken by the Danzig Nazi Government against Danzig Opposition and the Jews; these drastic measures abolished the Danzig Constitution guaranteed by the League of Nations; consternation in France after A. Hitler's newest "coup d'Etat abolishing the Statute of Danzig"; summoning of the Council of the League of Nations for urgent action.
Extract from the "Morning Post" on the drastic measures taken by the Danzig Nazi Government, abolishing most of the rights guaranteed by the Danzig Constitution and the League of Nations; A. Greiser's aggressive speech against the League of Nations and its High Commissioner worsened the already precarious relations between Danzig and Poland; huge demonstration held in Warsaw to request an extension of the Polish rights in Danzig.
Following A. Greiser's and the Nazi Government's decrees abolishing virtually the Danzig Constitution guaranteed by the League of Nations, S. Lester could not take any action unless he received a complaint that the regulations were unjust.
Extract from the "Daily Telegraph": A. Greiser's and the Nazi Government's new decrees abolishing the Danzig Constitution guaranteed by the League of Nations; S. Lester's telegram of protest to the League of Nations refused by a Danzig telegraph clerk; a meeting had to be summoned by the League of Nations urgently, since the Council was the only body qualified to take the necessary decisions; French press different views on J. Beck's complicity or not with A. Greiser.
Extract from "Le Figaro": A. Forster's speech attacking S. Lester's action as Danzig High Commissioner; huge demonstrations in Poland against the new decrees issued by the Danzig Nazi Government; talks between Polish representatives (the president Moscicki, the general Rydz-Smigly and the Foreign Minister J. Beck) on the situation in Danzig; Geneva awaiting S. Lester's report on Danzig; Italian neutrality regarding Danzig.
Danzig had become a dictatorship; the Danzig High Commissioner was powerless; demonstrations of protest in Poland.
On the report S. Lester had to prepare on the situation in Danzig following the repressive measures issued by A. Greiser, President of the Senate, and his Nazi Government.