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News comes from Geneva that the League of Nations, attempting to rectify the mistake made by the framers of the Versailles Treaty when they stipulated that Danzig should be considered as an international city, has given Poland military control of the district...
...cannot enforce her laws nor carry out her improvements unless she possesses some means by which she may force her authority. The glaring fault of internationalism as applied to cities was shown at the time of the Red drive on Poland, when the German stevedores and dock workers in Danzig struck, and held up ammunition and supplies needed by the Polish Army. The Poles threatened, Sir Reginald Tower, official administrator, pleaded with the strikers, but to no avail. For a time the situation was critical...
...regard it as martial currency in their diplomatic barter and trade, and may not easily break them selves of so fixed a habit. Nor is the word of Soviet Russia to be trusted implicitly. Under such conditions, and with Germany casting sheep's eyes at the port of Danzig, Poland enters upon her first peaceful and truly organized period of existence as a republic...
...Prussia, in 1772 by the first partition of Poland. That province had been a part of the Polish kingdom since the treaty of Thom in 1466, when it had been acquired from the Teutonic Knights. In those three centuries West Prussia had become thoroughly Polish in population and customs. Danzig, added to the New Prussia in 1792, was up to that time a free city under Polish protection. That is the exact status which, according to the Peace Treaty, it is to have hereafter...
...interesting to remember that Dean Haskins, as head of the Rhine Boundary Commission, played a prominent part. The question has at last been settled in a way to repair the wrongs which French coal fields suffered at the hands of Germany. In solving another bone of contention by the Danzig outlet, we understand Professor Lord offered able suggestions. It is highly satisfactory, thus to find names of Harvard men intimately connected with the Treaty...