Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allies of territories seized during the War and now administered as mandates by Great Britain. France and Japan. . . . The day is not far off when Germany will also demand restoration of territories seized from her on the Continent" (Alsace-Lorraine, the Polish Corridor, parts of Upper Silesia, Eupen & Malmedy, Danzig, the Saar. etc., etc.). Chancellor von Papen wrote in Der Saar Frennd last week: "The Saar District is German and wants to remain German. . . .* Growing knowledge of the real sentiments of the Saar population leads me to hope-without indulging in illusions -that the arbitrarily created problem of the Saar...
...Danzig's union with Poland is not temporary and it cannot be given up by one party. Danzig can only exist and grow as a Polish port. The Free City was created to serve that purpose and must be governed so as to fulfill the obligations imposed upon it by the Treaty of Versailles...
...Polish-Danzig relations are far from satisfactory. They present a picture of a chaotic maze of complaint, dispute and litigation that obscures the true meanings of these relations...
...years ago Poles were so afraid of . losing access to the sea through Danzig that they rushed to the nearby fishing village of Gdynia on Polish soil and started building a 100% Polish port. From a population of 300 Gdynia has increased to 30,000 and from the new city great docks stretch their fingers out into the Baltic. Obviously Poles poured millions of zlotys into building Gdynia because they believed Danzig to be autonomous, a Free City under the protection of the League...
...Polish warships lay last week in Danzig harbor. Safe in the shadow of their guns the new High Commissioner proclaimed the Free City indissolubly Polish. Danzigers are mostly Germans, and everyone knows what Germans think of Poles...