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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.
Extract from the "Manchester Guardian" on the difficult situation in Danzig: Nazi Government of Danzig in revolt against the League of Nations' decisions; Danzig Constitution violated by several laws and decrees issued by the Nazi Government; S. Lester's report on a petition requesting the general elections of 7 April 1935 be invalidated, on the suppression of opposition newspapers and on A. Forster's role as real ruler of Danzig.
Extract from the "Journal des Nations": Constitution, freedom and National Socialism were the three key words of the Danzig problem.
Extract from the "Yorkshire Post" on Danzig political situation: Nazis in power seeking to convert Danzig into a Nazi outpost, application of an anti-constitutional policy, influence of A. Forster and A. Greiser, suppression of opposition newspapers, but the League of Nations was guarantor of the Constitution, condemnation by the Hague Court of the decrees of the Senate introducing the "Nazi idea of justice", which took no account of law and could inflict punishment according to "sound, popular feeling", no provision for Danzig return to the Reich, Danzig was a Free City under the League of Nations' supervision.
Extract from the "Daily Telegraph": press resentment against S. Lester's well-founded report criticizing the Danzig Nazi Government attempting to reproduce the German system and to make Danzig dependent upon the Reich, A. Greiser under the influence of the Nazis, A. Forster, Nazi leader, acting as local dictator in Danzig.
Extract from the "Irish Independent": A. Greiser's reply to S. Lester's report accusing the Nazi Government of violating the Danzig Constitution, A. Greiser on A. Forster's actions: he exercised an influence over the Government party but did not take part in Danzig Government affairs.
Extract from the "Time and Tide" on S. Lester's report regarding flagrant violations of the Constitution by the Danzig Nazi Government, and the fact that the Nazi Government took its orders from the German Nazi Party via A. Forster, German Nazi Gauleiter, as well as on the Nazi danger to the security of Europe.
Geneva, 90th session of the League of Nations Council - Amendments to report on Danzig; report agreed to by British, Poles and Danzigers; talks with Wolfgang Krauel, German Consul General, A. Greiser, President of the Danzig Senate, (on A. Forster) and A. Eden.
Geneva, 90th session of the League of Nations Council - Talk with W. Krauel, German Consul General on A. Forster and on report on Danzig
A. Greiser's press interview and Polish reactions further to the League of Nations Council meeting; celebrations in Danzig of the advent to power of A. Hitler's Party in Germany; speeches from A. Greiser and A. Forster.