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Gauleiter (Regional Leader) A. Forster, from Nazi Party; his speech in the presence of Arthur Greiser, President of the Danzig Senate.

Geneva, 90th session of the League of Nations Council - A. Eden's declaration at opening of Council debate on Danzig situation; A. Greiser's, President of the Danzig Senate, declaration; social life: dinner with J. Avenol, J. Beck, Litvinov, Titulesco, Monch, Haar, Aras; work on draft report.

Lunch with Polish Minister Papee and A. Greiser, President of the Danzig Senate.

Excerpt from the "Daily Dispatch" regarding general impressions of A. Greiser's speech before the League of Nations Council.

Excerpt from the "Methodist Recorder" regarding A. Greiser's speech to the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva and the German intention of re-incorporating Danzig into into the German Reich.

Excerpt from the "Irish Daily Telegraph" regarding fears of a coup in Danzig; German support of A. Greiser; the boycotting of S. Lester by the Danzig Senate.

Excerpt from "The Observer" regarding A. Greiser's demand for the resignation of S. Lester as High Commissioner of Danzig along the abolition of the High Commissioner position and the transfer of those functions to the President of the Danzig Senate.

Public order maintained in Danzig; S. Lester expected complete National Socialist domination; following A. Greiser's violent speech in Geneva, S. Lester's house was guarded by the police and his office by a detective; Polish negotiations; Polish troops in Gdynia; Berlin wanted the elimination of the League of Nations guarantee of the Constitution and the cohesion of Danzig into a National Socialist unit; local press comments on Danzig.

1934-1936: conditions in which A. Greiser became President of the Danzig Senate; A. Greiser's and the Senate's intention to make Danzig a National Socialist State; difficult relations between the High Commissioner and the Danzig Senate; A. Greiser was more a soldier than a diplomat; A. Forster, leader of the Party, was the authority in Danzig; Danzig's defiance of the League of Nations was due to A. Forster; S. Lester's talk with Baron von Neurath on A. Forster's activities; attacks on S. Lester in the German press.

Extract from "The New Statesman and Nation" on the situation in Danzig: A. Greiser's violent declarations at Geneva; German propagandist campaign; Danzig Nazi Government and its violent action against non-Nazi people and the opposition parties; new wave of terror; attempts to humiliate the League of Nations; violent attacks by Danzig Nazis upon Nationalists with the death of several people as a result; Danzig opposition press forbidden; Poland's position; S. Lester's difficult action.