The Archive · 1939

Danzig "Autobahn" Project

The Danzig question will also be discussed during the conversations, it is understood. Chief issues to be raised by the Reich will be a demand for Poland's consent to the construction of a major motor road or autobahn through Pomerania, Although no mention of such a project is made in the press, it seems that Poland will not oppose such a highway but may object to the road being considered under German sovereignty Danzig itself is making no secret of. ithe project and the Nazi newspaper in that town has already published a map tracing the road completely up to the Polish frontiers of East and might arise from such a Franco-Italizn dispute.

Purely Polish-German problems such as those of the expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany, will not be raised today, the same observers added, as today's conversations will te devoted more to general question.

Polish-German tension, which arose following the creation of an independent Carpathic Ukraine within the Czech Federal State, has eased by naw as German policies appear to be directed—south-eastwards towards

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