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Boiling mad but keeping his feelings strictly to himself. High Commissioner Sean Lester, a British subject from Dublin, sped directly to Geneva last week. Also to Geneva went the young President of the Senate of Danzig, a heel-clicking Nazi, Arthur Karl Greiser. He stopped at Berlin, as usual, for instructions. Last January his orders were to go to Geneva and behave as 'umbly as Uriah Heep. Last week they were to lie low in Geneva until he was sure the League of Nations was down, then kick with all his might "in the name of all the German...
Exactly one hour after the League Assembly had voted to lift Sanctions from Italy and refuse succor to Ethiopia, Herr Greiser marched into a session of the League Council and with calculated insolence of manner addressed in German the luckless Council President, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden whose handsome young face was soon beet-red. In unprintably coarse language Herr Greiser attacked Mr. Lester to his face on personal grounds and demanded a free hand in Danzig for Nazis to administer their brand of "law and order...
Eden First. Appearing at Geneva for the first time as British Foreign Secretary, handsome young Anthony Eden brought the Empire's vast influence to bear squarely upon Danzig. In an abject climb-down, Senate President Arthur Greiser of this minute State agreed that its Government of native Danzig Nazis will abolish flagrant undemocratic abuses at the demand of Mr. Eden. The League's High Commissioner for Danzig is Irish Sean Lester, and Geneva found it piquant that Mr. Eden strongly backed him up last week, for the Irish Free State was this week the only part of King...
...hold their political rallies just outside the Free City on Polish soil. Irish Sean Lester, the resident High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig, tried to uphold the right of free speech last week but was met with guffaws by new Danzig Nazi Premier Dr. Arthur Greiser...
...Unless you mend your ways, Mr. Lester," contemptuously chortled Dr. Greiser, "you may have to get out of Danzig, just as the League's meddling Commissioner in Saarbrucken had to get out of the Saar...