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Letter from the Irish Journalist Seamus Ô Phelan to S. Lester Enclosing a Press Cutting of 24 January 1936 from the "Evening Standard" Entitled "Danzig"
Document · 1936.01.24
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The Irish Journalist wanted to inform S. Lester of the publication of this article on "Danzig", which seemed to him to be an attack on S. Lester, the article explained that in 1922 S. Lester was on the side of rebellion against the established Constitution in Ireland and that when he was appointed League of Nations official, he upheld the Danzig Constitution dictated by the Powers, the article also insisted on the fact that Danzig was a powder-magazine of Europe, and that the laws introduced by the Nazis of Danzig conflicted with the League of Nations' Constitution of Danzig.
Press Cutting "Jurists Study Silesian Protest Against Germany - Committee Named by League After Reich Ojects"
Press Cutting "Jurists Study Silesian Protest Against Germany - Committee Named by League After Reich Ojects"
Document · 1933.05.31
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Extract from the "Chicago Tribune" (Paris): Germany objected that the Bernheim petition was invalid, the Council of the League of Nations decided to appoint three jurists to make a report on the legality of the Bernheim petition complaining that Germany had infringed the rights of the Jewish minority in Upper Silesia, the Council's reporter declared that the German Government's anti-Semitic measures clearly violated the provisions of the German-Polish Pact guaranteeing the minorities in Upper Silesia.