The Polish Corridor, dividing East Prussia from the main body of the Greater German Reich while affording Poland her vital access to the sea through the Free City of Danzig and the Polish port of Gdynia on the Baltic, today centres world attention as the danger spot in European rivalries.
German claims of an extra-territorial road linking East Prussia with German Pomerania, together with claims for complete control of Danzig, predominantly German and now ruled by a Nazi Senate, are being resisted with growing firmness by the Polish Government and nation, supported by the guarantees pledged to Poland by France and Great Britain. Colonel Joseph Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, yesterday firmly declared before the Polish Diet his nation's official attitude towards this grave problem which was thrown into immediate issue by Herr Adolf Hitler who, in his recent Reichstag speech, denounced the German-Polish non-aggression treaty. The German press have become increasingly vehement in denouncing alleged persecution of Polish nationals of German extraction within Poland,
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