Next Document No. Mr. Shepherd to Viscount Halifax. Danzig, July 19, 1939. There is no modification of German claims regarding Danzig and the Corridor as formulated in Chancellor's speech to Reichstag. Nothing will be done on the German side to provoke a conflict on this question.
Question can wait if necessary until next year or even longer.
The Gauleiter said that the Senate would henceforth seek intervention of High Commissioner in difficult questions which might arise between the Senate and Polish representative. He requested High Commissioner to intervene officially at once in the matter of military trains not announced beforehand. Non-observance of this rule, which was established by an exchange of letters between the Senate and Polish representative in 1921, would have effect beyond local Danzig question and would, for example, entail a modification of German usage announcing to Polish Government visit of warships to port of Danzig. In addition, according to information at disposal of Senate, there were 300 men at Westerplatte in place of 100 agreed to. He claimed that a sharp watch at the frontier was necessary by the extensive importation of weapons for 3,000 Polish reservists resident in the district.