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...same day, in 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...
...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...
...match Polish Navy week at neighboring Gdynia, President Greiser, conveniently a lieutenant in the German Navy, invited a naval delegation from East Prussia to dedicate a Danzig monument to German sailors lost in the World War. The delegation, including the Reich's Rear Admiral Fleischer and a company of marines with a brass band, arrived in Danzig last Sunday. There were speeches and a parade, all surprisingly nonbelligerent. The Poles ignored the move, and sly Danzig Nazis reasoned that if they could get away with one "foreign" naval detachment in the Free City, they might get away with more...
Like any other businesslike airline, K. L. M. (Royal Dutch Air Lines) likes to run from city to city by the most direct route. But last week its new special London-Warsaw plane service was routed via Copenhagen, Gdynia and south to the Polish capital, avoided the direct route across Germany...
...Poles in Danzig there was some encouragement in the arrival at Gdynia, the all-Polish port only twelve miles northwest of Danzig, of Polish artillery. And just to keep the record straight the Polish Government reiterated its oft-repeated firm stand: "Any attempt to alter the present state of affairs in Danzig will have as an immediate effect immediate action by the Polish military forces, which at present are in a state of readiness...