CITY OF DANZIG

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 9

CITY OF DANZIG

SECRET AGREEMENT

GERMANY AND POLAND

MEL EDEN'S -CONCERN

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(Rrccivrcl January 23, I I a.m.) GENEVA, January 22.

Tlie Foreign Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden) conferred with Colonel Beck and roundly condemned Poland's attitude in 'the Danzig question. lL is underwood that Poland has concluded a secret agreement with Germany, promising full support for Germany's). Danzig demands, in defiance of the Xeague's decision. MOST AMICABLE DISCUSSION WITH BECK REPORTS DENIED (British Official Wireless.) (Received January 23, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, January 22. Reports which were current this afternoon that there was heated altercation between thie British Foreign Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden), and the Polish Foreign Minister (Colonel Beck), who met this morning at Geneva and fouml themselves in sharp disagreement in regard to the terms of a report on thei Danzig regime which the Polish Minister has prepared for submission to the Council of the League, are entirely without- foundation. Mr. Eden has piot yet, had an opportunity of studying the report and this morning's conversation, which was of a most amicable nature, was concerned solely with matters of procedure. A comrtrittee of three appointed by the Council and comprising Mr. Eden, M. Delbos; (France), and M. Sandler (Swedein), will meet tomorrow for the fiijst time to consider Colonel Bcck's neport. POLICING DANZIG ACTING iFOR LEAGUE Relations betwieen Poland and Germany over the general question of the Polish Corridor and the related issue of Danzig were improved in 1934 by the conclusion of an "Eastern Locarno" which established a non-aggression pact and the categorical renunciation of force in the settjsment of disputes for a period of ten years. In the Polish view the agreennent also implied the recognition of existing frontiers. This understanding has been reported to be the product of ,an ultimatum of the Poles who presented Germany with the alternative of agreement or possible hostilities. The campaign of the Nazis in Danzig}, the slighting of Mr. Sean Lester, tha representative of the League of Nations in the city, and the intransigneant cdnduct of Herr Greiser, the Nazi leader* brought matters to a head at the Legigue of Nations Council meeting last. October, when it was determined to "remove the obstructions" of the Danzig Nazis, which Mr. Lester reportecj as systematic, and Poland undertook the task. Herr Greiser was called elsewhere by Berlin, and Mr. Lqster was appointed an Assistant Secrettary'-General of the League, any personal elements thus being removed.. Almost at once silence settled upon Bferlin, while Poland began its police work for the League, and some ind%nation after a protest addressed by Dr. Bottsher, of the Foreign Affairs' Department of the Danzig Government,.- to Dr. Papee, the Polish representative, was officially controlled, in (the English view, "in the interests ol: the Polish-German Pact." Then, iii November, the German Government gave Poland assurances that it vl'ould not intervene in the Danzig dispute. It was reported that this undertaking had come about through the pointed inquiry of Colonel Beck as to whether Germany wished to continue the? Treaty of Non-aggres-sion. At the ei}.d of last year Colonel Beck visited London and had a series of conversations with the Government in which a polilcy of collaboration was mapped. Previously General RydzSmigly, the successor of Pilsudski as head of the Pdlish Army, had paid a visit to Paris, 'and these events were supposed not tjo he without influence in Germany.