S. Lester's assistance requested: he urged the railwaymen to put their case before their Government.
Nazi leaders forming the Danzig Government convinced that, thanks to the resurrection of German power, Danzig dependence on the League of Nations for protection and Danzig's obligations towards the League of Nations regarding the Constitution were about to change; Danzig Senate's policy of defiance towards the League of Nations Council; S. Lester was not disposed to accept a renewal of his appointment in Danzig.
Stachnik, leader of the Zentrum Party, informed S. Lester the negotiations were broken down with the Senate, because President A. Greiser refused to retract in public his declarations insulting the Zentrum Party, S. Lester tried to convince Stachnik to negotiate in the interest of Danzig.
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.
Elections in Danzig: Saar plebiscite influence, Danzig Constitution, and protection of Minorities; the Polish/Danzig conciliation was the High Commissioner's main task.
Also on S. Lester's receptions at Danzig and Warsaw and referring to an article from the "Danziger Neuefte Nachrichten" by Theodor Seibert.
Catholic Bishop O'Rourke denounced pagan tendencies, Marxism and Bolshevism in politics; A. Forster's speech: people giving information to the High Commissioner were "traitors and separatists"; A. Greiser's remarks: National Socialism accepted by whole German people except some anti-German elements in Danzig protected by an out-of-date Constitution.
K. Papée on proclamation and on A. Forster's Speech; attacks on meetings of Opposition; Election Committee; imminent arrival of National Socialist
leaders; police control of Zentrum meeting.
Extract from the "New York Herald Tribune" on the Danzig elections.
About S. Lester's letter regarded incidents at the dissolution meeting of the Volkstag: the "Lunds Dagblad" quoted this letter as a report by the Danzig High Commissioner to the League of Nations Secretary General; comments of the "Lunds Dagblad", known for its fascist views, on S. Lester and the Danzig situation; no idea about this leakage of official informations, but it could not have occurred at the League of Nations Secretariat.