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Show Here's the Meat of Europe's Quarrel Over Danzig The German Side GERMANY CLAIMS: Danzig, a traditionally German city with almost 100 per cent German population, wishes to be and should be incorporated into the Reich. Germans in Danzig have been abused, their rights curtailed cur-tailed by Poles. Danzig and the Polish Corridor cuts the Reich off from East Prussia in a way intolerable to German pride, a reminder of the repudiated Versailles Ver-sailles settlement. Return of Danzig to Germany would not affect Polish independence. Danzig Bo4Ebing J If 'TivS OF DANZIG ss?! w I - z We h e row i (( jW rrr-; f CORRIDOR f 2 7-r-yif II gy MgQpgE GERMANY;m tf J1 Sc.lt o( Miles The Polish Side POLISH CLAIMS? Danzig. Gdynia Gdy-nia and the ' Polish Corridor are an absolute economic necessity ne-cessity to Poland's independence, independ-ence, as their only outlet for sca-torne trade. Further, the latter two are truly Polish. Deprived De-prived of this sea outlet, Poland Po-land would immediately become be-come a second-rate country, and lose economic and military power to defend itself against further aggression, to which it regards the Danzig move as only the prelude. I " ) f r - - f German Strength Cancellor Hitler, whose spokesman spokes-man in Danzig is Albert Foerster. heaci of the free city Nazis, has to back up his claims about 2,500.000 men under arms. He has a superior air force and mechanized me-chanized divisions, but a potential poten-tial lack of supplies and reserves in case of long war. As Allies, the Reich could count on Italy (900.000 under arms) and possibly pos-sibly Hungary (200,000) if war became general. Polish Strength Col. Josef Beck, Polish strong man, has about 1.000,000 under arms, small but good air force, good arms, splendid cavalry. He is laced with insufficient reserves. re-serves. If Nazis seize Danzig from free city status under Dr. Karl L. Burckhardt, League of Nations commissioner, Beck might count as allies Britain (700.000 soldiers and world's greatest navy), France and Kur-key Kur-key (1,000,000 each). Foerster Beck Bruckhardl Hitler |