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Document · 1934.07.18
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The President of the Senate H. Rauschning was informed by the Danzig International Shipbuilding Company of the possibility for the Company to get an order to build some small torpedo boats for a foreign State, but not Germany, the contract did not include any weapons of war, therefore article five of the Constitution, providing that no weapons of war or war material would be manufactured in Danzig without the League of Nations' consent, did not apply nor the regulation made by the Council on 23 June 1921, S. Lester willing to help Danzig to get the work, because it meant a year's work for a good many men and the Danziger Werft, that was in a bad way at the time, what General LeRond attributed to Poland's refusal to carry out the contract under which the Poles were given a share in the Shipbuilding Company and to obstruction by the Polish customs officers.

Document · 1935.12.11
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Deterioration of the situation regarding the Danzig Constitution; wish of the Nazi Party leaders to make Danzig a Nazi city in spite of the Constitution and the League of Nations; Council's recommendations not carried out; press suppressions; Danzig Government's attitude of open defiance of the League of Nations; High Commissioner's report on Gauleiter A. Forster's activities who was a real dictator in Danzig; new election petitioned for by the Opposition Parties; League of Nations' possible means of intervention; S. Lester convinced that the Danzig Government had no intention to keep the Constitution; special Committee of investigation to examine the Danzig laws and their administration.

Document · 1937.01.20
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S. Lester's annual report; post-September events such as political parties, decrees, weakening opposition; possible Polish-Danzig agreement; Danzig's future; Poland's policy; fear of a recrudescence of the Danzig-Polish conflict.

Document · 1936.07.17
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Possible Danzig settlement; A. Greiser's possible resignation; High Commissioner as element in bargaining; S. Lester's interesting notes on Danzig events for talks with J. Avenol and members of the Council; S. Lester's contretemps to the first visit of the Italian Consul General, Count Ponzone; S. Lester's appointment with Noel, French Ambassador in Warsaw, one of the finest French diplomats; S. Lester's awareness of his responsibilities and the fact he was sitting at "the most dangerous point" in the European situation, as Noel noticed it.

Document · 1936
Part of Private Archives

S. Lester's appointment, on 30 September 1936, as League of Nations Deputy Secretary-General, was entirely J. Avenol's initiative; Secretariat's reactions regarding his appointment; League of Nations Assembly on the admission of the Abyssinian delegation; Locarno Conference; fear of Germany; Osusky, Czechoslovakian Minister in Paris, on Germany, Hitler, and Czechoslovakia; F. Walters' pessimistic view regarding great nations and the League of Nations, as well as a possible aggression launched by Germany; K. Papée on Polish policy and Danzig-Polish relations; S. Lester in Prague to meet Bruins, who used to be the American Consul in Danzig.