Evening star., 1936-06-28
DANZ|G NAZ| MOVE
ST|RS LEAGUE FEAR
French and Polish Foreign
Ministers Confer on
Situation.

German city OF Dnrsfo set up as
free city under League supervision
tn treaty OF Versailles, nhtch CIT
corridor to the sea through Ger
man territory for benefit OF Poland.
Nusis long haze aimed at return
OF tree city to German sovereignty.
More in this direction seen IN
statement By Danzig Nazt leader
that League control is stperfuous.
sy the Associated Press.
GENEVA, June 27-Nazl Germany
and Nazi problems in the strategic
little free territory Of Danzig stlrreo
the anxiety of League of Nations pow
ers today.
As for sanctions against Italy-there
pere predictions that Assembly DEBATE
on the question of lifting them would
be only formality next week because
so many countries have indicated they
do not want to go on with the
measures.
Germany's rearmament, Informed
sources said, was discussed at a con-
ference between Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden of Great Britain and
Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Russias for
eign conmissar.
Conference on Poland.
The French and Polish foreign
ministers. Yvon Delbos and Joseph
Beck. conferred on the Danzig situa-
ton brought about by thrust from
the free citys Na1 leader, Albert
Forster, against the League and its
high commissioner. Sean Lester.
In Berlin the foreign Office. through
Its mouthpiece, the Deutsche Diploma
tische Korrespondenz, openly backed
the Danzig Nazis' independence move.
"A state with many centuries of old
traditions and culture such as Danzig
does not need a governor or govern
ess." it said in commenting on the
Nal declaration in the free city of
DantZig that League of Nation super
vision was "superf1uous"
For this reason" it added, 'the
expectation must be voiced the League
of Nations henceforth will refrain from
inappropriate methods which in the
end could only lead to question
whether the League really sees its task
as a furtherance Of peace or perhaps
the creation of dissension."
Adolf Hitler's delay in replying to
the British Locarno questionnaire,
which sought to clarity the ReiCh's
intentions following the rearmament
Of the Rhineland. was reported a
continued subject of English uneasi-
ness. isa16
Nazi Dictatorship Feared.
Forster's statement that Lester and
the League have nothing more to do
With settling differences between Dan
zig and Poland caused expressions of
fear in some League circles lest his
action be Berlin inspired prelude to
a Nazi dictatorship in Danzig.
Such step would violate the Treaty
of Versailles and would necessitate
prompt League action. observers said.
German sources in Geneva took the
position. however, that Forster merely
was indulging in personal quarrel.
Nicaragua joined the Latin Amer
lean states which have resigned from
the League today, giving rise to sug-
eestions of possible ambitions for a
PanAmerican League of Nations
among Central and South American
powers. Guatemala, Paraguay, Costa
Rica and Brazil already are outside
the League and 1t was reported Hon
duras might quit.
Selassie TO Petition Swiss.
Italians in Geneva, awaiting the
lifting of sanctions, indicated today
that II Duces counter sanctions"
would be raised from most League
members as soon as the Leagues puni-
tive measures were removed.
II vas reported Emperor Halle Sc
lassie, viewing proceedings from a
Geneva hotel, planned to petition the
Swiss government for~the right to live
at his Vevey villa He said today his
former Ethiopian subjects would re-
fuse to live under the heel of an
eggressor."