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Unable to get Rauschning, the brownshirt gangsters beat up two Polish diplomats, smashed windows of the homes of the Portuguese and Lithuanian consuls for Gdynia, who live in Danzig, and perpetrated upon Danzigers 85 verified assaults...
...years ago Poles were so afraid of . losing access to the sea through Danzig that they rushed to the nearby fishing village of Gdynia on Polish soil and started building a 100% Polish port. From a population of 300 Gdynia has increased to 30,000 and from the new city great docks stretch their fingers out into the Baltic. Obviously Poles poured millions of zlotys into building Gdynia because they believed Danzig to be autonomous, a Free City under the protection of the League...
Before the War, the city of Riga was the second most important port on the Baltic. With the re-establishment of Poland and the creation of Latvia, Riga shriveled. Poles built a port of their own at Gdynia. Foreign steamers that used to call at Riga passed it by. Latvian authorities made one attempt to resurrect their capital by advertising the city as a summer resort. Knowing people recognize the Gulf of Riga as an ideal spot for small boat racing in summer. Its waters are quite warm enough for comfortable swimming, but the average tourist, looking at Riga...
Into Brooklyn's noisy harbor last week sailed the Gdynia Amerika steamer Polonia, first passenger vessel ever to cross the Atlantic under the Polish Flag. Simultaneously, Warsaw was host to the East European Agrarian Conference. These commendable commercial pursuits, however, were vastly overshadowed by the political activities of blustering, oath-some Dictator Josef Pilsudski. Last April all the Dictator's shouting and all of his men-including President Ignatz Moscicki-could not prevail upon Parliament to make his brother Jan Prime Minister (TIME, April 7). The best Dictator Pilsudski could...
...sturdy ships, the Florida, Estonia and Lithuania, which have been plowing back and forth for several years between New York and the Free City of Danzig. Now, flying the White Eagle of Poland, they will pass up poor Danzig, will call at the new and prosperous port of Gdynia, an artificial harbor constructed by Poles with mighty zeal near the tip of their famed "corridor to the sea." Nothing would please most Poles more than that Danzig, ancient and once splendid city of the Hanseatic League, should die of slow, economic strangulation...