Extract from the "Danziger Volkstimme" on the political crisis between H. Rauschning, President of the Danzig national-socialist Senate and A. Forster, chief of the national-socialist party of the Free City of Danzig: H. Rauschning's resignation denied.
Following S. Lester's departure from Danzig, Nazis proceeded to the arrest and suppression of all the political opponents; A. Forster declared that Danzig wanted no more High Commissioners.
Extract from the "Irish Times" on a telegraph clerk having refused to send S. Lester's telegram of protest to the League of Nations, because the telegram would not have pleased A. Forster; following the Danzig Nazi Government's new repressive decrees the High Commissioner could not propose any specific action unless he received a complaint that the regulations were unjust.
Extract from "Le Temps" on A. Forster's violent attack launched upon the Danzig High Commissioner.
Extract from "Le Figaro": A. Forster's attack on S. Lester, A. Forster requested S. Lester's immediate departure after S. Lester was slighted by the captain of the German cruiser "Leipzig", who was ordered by the War Minister in Berlin not to pay a courtesy visit to the Danzig High Commissioner.
Extract from "Le Petit Parisien": incident in Danzig with the Captain of the German cruiser "Leipzig", who did not pay any courtesy visit to the High Commissioner S. Lester; A. Forster's violent attack on S. Lester accused of being in favour of the Danzig Opposition Parties.
Extract from "Le Temps" on A. Greiser's visit to A. Hitler at Weimar; A. Greiser's view on the conflict between A. Forster and S. Lester; attacks made by the Nazi Government and Nazi newspapers on S. Lester, whose presence at Danzig disturbed the Nazi Government.
Extract from "Le Temps" on A. Forster's violent attack on S. Lester.
Extract from "The Times": Reich Government fully agreed with A. Forster's sarcastic attack on the Danzig High Commissioner, this attack was in connection with the slight directed against S. Lester by the captain of the visiting German cruiser "Leipzig", that was ordered by the War Minister in Berlin not to pay a courtesy visit to the Danzig High Commissioner.
Extract from the "Daily Express": S. Lester's annual report on Danzig, Nazi decree laws in Danzig, S. Lester on A. Forster; photograph of S. Lester.