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Noteworthy it is that while the port of Danzig, established under the League of Nations at the end of the World War as a free city with a Polish customs union, has been actually ruled by the local Nazis for three years, Germany has not yet found it "convenient" formally to annex the Free City. Poland has a flourishing port now of its own at Gdynia, but the Poles have nevertheless insisted that Danzig respect the internationally guaranteed Polish rights...
Last week there was more Danzig trouble. At the Technical Institute in Danzig German students hung the sign: "POLES AND DOGS NOT ADMITTED." The Polish students' home was raided by Nazi gangs. The reaction was violent and sustained. At Poznań, Polish students retaliated by stoning a German library. At Warsaw 1,000 students paraded, shouted "Down with Germany!", made their way to the German Embassy on Pius XI Street and broke several windows. Even after Count Ciano arrived the anti-German demonstrations continued, and there were shouts of "Down with the Rome-Berlin axis...
...part, Herr Hitler ordered Nazi broadcasts aimed at Polish Ukrainians toned down, temporarily at least. On his part, Foreign Minister Beck was reported to have agreed to: 1) formal annexation by Germany of Danzig, already completely Nazified but still nominally under League of Nations supervision; 2) special status for the Germans in Memel, still part of Lithuania, but actually ruled by local Nazis directed from Berlin...
...Fearing Nazi oppression, about 30% of the Jewish population of the Free City of Danzig were announced to have fled abroad last week. Danzig Nazis of the Hitler Youth raided a synagogue, trampled and tore up the sacred Hebrew scrolls. Notice was served on 400 Jews owning houses in Danzig that next month Aryans will "purchase" their property. The Jews will be forced to sell out at Nazi-dictated prices...
...Empire of Manchukuo and assures Japan that the Fatherland wants no territory in Eastern Asia; 2) Germany has no territorial designs upon France or Spain and is "proud" of the 1934 pact by which Germany and Poland continue to respect each other's rights and interests, "even in Danzig"; 3) as to Austria...