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Weyers of the Polish Legation dealing with this Agreement including an article on arbitration: in the case of any dispute a Board of Arbitration would settle the matter, the President would be appointed by the two parties or in the absence of an agreement by the High Commissioner and it would still be possible for one of the two Governments to appeal to the High Commissioner further to the Arbitration Board's decision.

No hope for the S.D. Party in Danzig; H. Rauschning in refuge in Poland; H. Rauschning's letter on A. Hitler; articles written by H. Rauschning on an anti-Nazi Danzig block; J. Beck on Danzig agreement to maintain present legal status; effort to make Danzig conflict a personal matter between the Danzig Senate and S. Lester.

Regarding Poland's support to the Danzig High Commissioner in his duties and the League of Nations' guarantees.

Dinner with O'Rourke: cartoon from the "Morning Post" depicting a so-called school for Nazi diplomats, O'Rourke's fear of a war; declarations in the House of Commons from A. Eden, Noel Baker and Cranbourne on S. Lester and the situation in Danzig.

Reaction in Danzig to A. Hitler's speech and the reoccupation of the demilitarized zone in the West, A. Forster after a long absence in Germany returned to Danzig, where he will make profit for the Party from the situation.

A. Forster represented a danger for Germany and Danzig; A. Greiser's loyalty to the Führer; policy of cooperation with the League of Nations to be reconsidered; S. Lester's talk with the German Consul General; summary of the last events in Danzig.

Short biography on A. Forster: not a Danzig citizen but a German national, leader of the Danzig National Socialist Party, pretending in his speeches to represent A. Hitler's views, controlling the official newspaper of the National Socialist Party in Danzig, and threatening to use physical force against the Danzig Opposition, but there was no official recognition of A. Forster by the German Reich as their agent.

Talks between Budding, Regierungs Präsident for East Prussia and S. Lester: S. Lester perturbed by the situation in Danzig and the loss of H. Rauschning; Budding's views: the trouble came from the economic crisis in Danzig, only a substantial reduction of wages and salaries would save the situation, Danzig was the crucial point in Eastern Europe, bad relationship between Poland and Germany would be disastrous, Poles had confidence in H. Rauschning, A. Greiser was not a man of much weight.

S. Lester arose the problem of the replacement for the High Commissioner in the case of illness or death, J. Beck did not agree regarding this matter as a modification to the Convention of Paris; question of customs officers: according to K. Papée, the main obstacle was not the claim of Poland to request dismissal of the customs officer but the acceptance as law in Danzig of the decree of the Finance Minister in Warsaw.

On questions S. Lester wanted to discuss with Ferber, such as the press announcement that a Commissioner had been appointed by the Senate to replace the Municipal Council of Danzig, it seemed to S. Lester that the Senate's action was contrary to the Constitution, and the text of the declaration of the Police President Froböss to the Criminal Police, that officials should put themselves under the command of A. Hitler.