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Foreign News: Birthday Present?

Adolf Hitler has given Germany so many territorial presents in the past three years that, as a present for Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday this week, the German Government thought of giving one to him—Danzig.

The Free City of Danzig, ostensibly governed by Poland and the League of Nations, is Poland's No. 2 port. It handles two-thirds the tonnage of nearby, all-Polish Gdynia. For four years Danzig has been run by a German Nazi Government. For Germany to take Danzig would be, politically, like the Italians taking Albania. The question that made Danzig a birthday...

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