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dd quite certainly
is the historical er conflict. Recent considered in the
that, while Poland
than the mainten- it situation in Dan- a have been willing agree to certain Germany's favour, longer interested oblem." He wishes ration of the Free as a preliminary recovery of the of Pomorze (the to the subsequent han dominion over E..
3 not made lightly. leaders in Danzig the return of Dan- ust be accompani- hediately followed, of the "Corridor,” ess to the sea was y it would not be is a "Protectorate"
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Poland is convinced that, had it not been for the Polish mobilisation, last year. Danzig would have been seized by the German fleet on its return from Herr Hitler's triumphal entry into trol of their own destiny. A Na-
In Danzig Germans are in Memel. On a recent visit to Danzig I found a good deal of evidence to support this view. The German in- habitants had been provided. with his year, which I garlands to celebrate their "libera- y, until recently, tion" and officials had been appoint any, provide fur- ed to take over the railway ad- err Hitler has no ministration, which is in Poland's
as such, and that hands. e question when,
of Bohemia and While to Germany
Danzig is
h, he decided to merely a "stepping-stone to higher Poland. When things," it is life. Itself to Poland. h Foreign Minis- A glance at
the map
will rchtesgaden
th a conflict.
in show that if Germany were in con- er told him that trol of Danzig she could at any provincial town" moment cut off. Poland's access to the sea at Gdynia. At its narrow- est point the "Corridor" is barely e opened for the 25 miles wide, and all the railway League of Na- connections with Gdynia except one, n-Danzig- into a which for much of its length is still dominium. Al- a single-track. line, run through still a consider Danzig_territory,
ered, the talks
avourably until Perhaps, it may
tional Socialist Government is in power,, having gained an overwhel- ming majority in the Diet by viol- ence and trickery. All other parties have been eliminated, and habitants must be presumed to have the in-
obtained in this way the Govern- ment.
Many books have been written on possible point of view, and in a short the subject of Danzig from every
article like this it is impossible to blem. I have worked for many years 'consider every aspect of the pro-
Poland, and I have paid half a dozen in Germany, for a short time in
visits to Danzig in the last five years, My conclusion is that the the only possible solution of the peace-makers at Versailles found
world it would no longer be a pro- Danzig question. In a rational
blem.
be suggested, Herr Hitler has put forward his]
y broken off by Germany would be willing to give a demands and Poland has refused to rch.
guarantee not to remilitarise Danzig? Poland has seen the an- never surrender is a 100 per cent. accept them. That Poland will faced with the nexation of Bohemia union of Danzig and knows that any such guarantee next move, confident that Britain and Moravia certainty, and she awaits Germany's the construction would not be worth the paper on and France now realise that it is as ial route across which it was written.
connect East
much in their interest to defend Danzig as Gibraltar or Tunis.
and
dy of Germany. On strategic he German Am- grounds Poland's claims are
offered his re- assailable. What of the
economic un- "racial"
aspect? It should be stated at once told that he that there is no analogy whatever "firing line."
between the situation in Danzig to-
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