Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this week there was another, this one at Kaltof in highly inflammable Danzig. Involved was no highly placed ruler or diplomat, but a German butcher named Gustav Gruebner, who was killed by a shot fired from an official Polish automobile. Since incidents amount to what nations want to make them, Führer Adolf Hitler could give Butcher Gruebner a sure niche in history by deciding that this was ' just the right kind of provocation he needed to march into Danzig...
...Nazis redoubled their attempt to weaken the Polish customs control of the Danzig-East Prussian frontier. Nazis had already tried ordering German merchants to refuse to sell foodstuffs to Polish officials. A more direct method was tried last week: a Polish customs officer's house was bombed, a Polish stationmaster was attacked by "unknown assailants...
...Warsaw and the rest of Poland solemnly commemorated the fourth anniversary of the death of Marshal Josef Pilsudski, Polish hero and dictator, but not Danzig. There the Nazi Senate prohibited any ceremonies on the ground that in the present tension they could not guarantee order. Polish retort was that since the Germans could not keep order, the Polish Army should move in and do it. When a Polish bookshop proprietor displayed the old Marshal's picture his windows were smashed. Nazi police conveniently arrived too late to arrest the vandals...
More alarming than any other incident was the arrival in Danzig of the same husky young Germans who "toured" Czecho-Slovakia and Memel just before Adolf Hitler moved in. Estimates of Danzig's "tourists" last week ranged from 1,000 to 30,000. Some of them wore Storm Troopers' uniforms. Danzigers who have been serving in the German Army also turned up back in Danzig, having received "furloughs." Danzig police leaves were canceled...
...Poles in Danzig there was some encouragement in the arrival at Gdynia, the all-Polish port only twelve miles northwest of Danzig, of Polish artillery. And just to keep the record straight the Polish Government reiterated its oft-repeated firm stand: "Any attempt to alter the present state of affairs in Danzig will have as an immediate effect immediate action by the Polish military forces, which at present are in a state of readiness...