A Purge in Danzig The Nazi administration in Danzig has
long ago broken the restrictions placed by the League on the government of the "Free City." The constitution guaranteed by the League is ignored, there have been beatings, un- lawful arrests, persecution of Jews, suppression of oppo- sition parties and newspapers. Danzig enjoys all the benefits of National Socialism. At its next meeting in January, the League Council is to discuss the whole Danzig question, and especially the relations of the City with the League, the Polish report on Danzig affairs, and the appointment of a new League High Commissioner. It is possible that the Danzig Senate will not be repre- sented at the Council meeting : in any case the, least the Council can do is to express its condemnation of Herr Greiser's administration. It seems, however, that even Nazis are not wholly satisfied with their Government. It is reported that in the last week some 80 members of the Party, mostly S.A. men, were arrested, including one of the most trusted lieutenants of Herr Forster, the German Nazi Party's chief agent in Danzig. They are said to have become intensely dissatisfied with Herr Greiser's government and, like Rohm and his followers in Germany, to have intrigued both with dissident mem- bers of the Party and with the Opposition. Like Rohm also they appear to have suffered the punishment swiftly visited by the Party on those who criticise its failures.
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