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Document · 1936.01.19
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Extract from "The Observer" on attacks by the German Press on S. Lester accused of overstepping his functions, of placing before the League of Nations Danzig questions, such as petitions from the anti-Nazi opposition parties which challenged the validity of last April's elections, and of having written a report on the unconstitutional action of the Danzig Nazi Senate.

Document · 1935.02.23
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Extract from the "Independent" on the dissolution of the Volkstag: since the result of the Saar plebiscite, Nazis's agitation increased in Danzig, by the use of the majority they obtained at the last election of the Volkstag, Nazis forced a dissolution of the Volkstag, in the hope a new election would give them nearly all of the seats; their main objective was to make Danzig to return to Germany.

Document · 1936.01.19
Part of Private Archives

Extract from the "Sunday Times": A. Eden, Foreign Secretary, will attend the League of Nations Council's session on Italo-Ethiopian dispute and the complaint of the Minority Parties in Danzig against methods employed and decrees issued by the Nazi Government that violated the principles of the Constitution; Goebbel's speech in Berlin claiming return of the German colonies.

Document · 1936.01.20
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Extract from the "Belfast News-Letter": S. Lester's report on the unsatisfactory situation in Danzig, petitions from the Jewish, Socialist and Roman Catholic minorities on unconstitutional treatments by the Nazi Government, Nazi laws declared unconstitutional by the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice, the Council guardian of the democratic Constitution had to ensure it was loyally observed by the Danzig Nazi Government, suppression of opposition newspapers and Parties in Danzig.