Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Questions affecting the free city of Danzig, the Saar Basin, child labor, aerial navigation, white slave traffic, armaments...
...Free City of Danzig is about to invite the United States to subscribe to a loan of $20,000,000 for the purpose of establishing a new currency to replace the German and Polish paper marks. The new unit of currency of the former German port will be either the dollar or the pound sterling...
Many towered Danzig is administered by the League of Nations through a High Commissioner, appointed for one year. He is directly responsible to the Council of the League; his duty is to mediate in differences between the Free City and its neighbors (Germany and Poland). The civic administration is conducted by a Senate and an Assembly, elected by the population, on the basis of a constitution approved by the High Commissioner and the Council...
...cannot enforce her laws nor carry out her improvements unless she possesses some means by which she may force her authority. The glaring fault of internationalism as applied to cities was shown at the time of the Red drive on Poland, when the German stevedores and dock workers in Danzig struck, and held up ammunition and supplies needed by the Polish Army. The Poles threatened, Sir Reginald Tower, official administrator, pleaded with the strikers, but to no avail. For a time the situation was critical...
Contingencies such as this are bound to occur whenever there is a division of power or authority. The League, in giving to Poland the prerogative of using her army to keep the peace, has don the only thing possible to prevent Danzig from becoming a perpetual stew-pot of international differences...