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...Adolf Hitler last week showed more grimly than ever his determination to press his demands against Poland (see col. 3), the Free City of Danzig, the old Hanseatic town on the Baltic, became Europe's chief danger spot. Danzig is 95% German. It is ruled by Nazis. It is politically (if not economically) free from Polish rule. Students of the Treaty of Versailles have long criticized the detachment of Danzig from Germany at the World War's end and the placing of the city in the Polish customs union. If it is accepted that Austria, the Sudetenland...
Britain and France, however, have specifically guaranteed to help Poland to defend herself against any action which Poland considers a threat to her independence. Last week the Polish Government, having learned much from the Czecho-Slovakian lesson, let it be known that it would consider a seizure of Danzig a threat to Polish independence, that the Third Reich could not have Danzig without fighting for it. While reports from London and Paris said that the British and French Governments would advise the Poles to "negotiate," the Poles were determined not to accept mediation on the Czech pattern...
...Poland is in earnest and will fight it Hitler tries to take Danzig," Michael Karpovich, assistant professor of History, and expert on Eastern European affairs stated yesterday...
WARSAW--The Government tonight prepared to answer Fuehrer Adolf Hitler with defiant counter-demands for increased Polish rights in Danzig--perhaps including a formed protectorate--after May Day celebrations marked by bitter anti-German feeling...
With pomp reminiscent of old Imperial Germany, Adolf Hitler, Aggrandizer of the Reich, last week celebrated his 50th birthday. The representatives of conquered nations paid him humble homage. The envoys of fearful satellites rendered respectful tribute. Albert Forster, Nazi No. 1 of the Free City of Danzig, presented a document which made the Fuhrer an honorary citizen of a town he may soon appropriate. Special delegations from Germany's allies were received in special audience...