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...every Polish city and town as well as Gdynia, Poles massed and took a public oath: "We swear to defend the eternal right of Poland to the Baltic and to protect the maritime future of our country, to maintain an invincible guard in the mouth of the Vistula [Danzig]. ... So help...
...Nazis followed through their by now familiar routine of the "war of nerves" by massing troops on the Polish border, smuggling SS men and ammunition into Danzig, spreading tales of terror, creating incidents and sounding false alarms, the outline of the coup could be foreseen. Danzig would have an "internal uprising." The eight members of the Danzig Senate-all Nazis-would declare the Free City absorbed into the Reich. At that moment police and soldiers would evict the Polish customs guards on the area's borders and take over. If the Poles decided then to march into Danzig, they...
...cast," Herr Hitler was quoted as saying. "We cannot retreat now. Our backs are against the wall. It is not a question of knowing if I am right or wrong in posing so brutally the Danzig question. What is done is done, and we must accept the consequences. We must have our way, whatever the cost, in the few weeks which still separate us from the autumn months...
Though many thought this terse style highly unlike the author of Mein Kampj, and very much like the Political Section of the German Intelligence, the story did much to make the French jittery. They frankly expected a Danzig coup last weekend. The week-end passed without one, but early this week so many alarming rumors (and war preparations) had spread over Europe that Adolf Hitler apparently decided that the hour was not quite as propitious as he had thought. An "authorized" (but unidentified) Nazi spokesman delivered an extraordinary announcement, prompted by Neville Chamberlain's statement to the House...
...Gdynia, only 13 miles from Danzig, President Ignacy Moscicki delivered a nine-minute patriotic speech which thrilled his country. "The Baltic seacoast, Pomorze [the Polish Corridor] and our two ports, Gdynia and Danzig, are the air and sun of our national life and the basis of our political and economic independence," said the 72-year-old former professor of electrochemistry who has been Poland's President for the last 13 years. "Through this narrow gate, through a small strip of seacoast, is done three-quarters of our business with foreign nations. This is our free unhindered...