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After thumbing his Nazi nose in the council chamber of the League of Nations and insultingly abusing League High Commissioner for Danzig Sean Lester, blustering President Arthur Greiser of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig arrived home by way of Berlin last week boasting: "Germany stands behind us!''

The opposition newsorgan in Danzig was promptly suppressed by the Free City's exuberant Nazis for five months. Danzig officials said they would "ignore"' High Commissioner Lester, who was rumored about to resign. A correspondent who called on Nose-Thumber Greiser was told: "You should have seen the faces of the delegates to the League Council. Ja, you just should have seen their faces! . . . Our success in Geneva is having profound effect. We would welcome the appointment of a German as High Commissioner, since a German would understand the situation in Danzig--or even an American would be all right!"

Considering that the Danzig Nazis had got far too chesty, adjoining Poland, a State armed to the teeth and with a hair-trigger temper, sent its Berlin Ambassador around to see bull-necked German Air Minister and Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Goering, who makes Poland one of his Nazi specialties, dearly loves to shoot wild boar at the hunting lodge of Poland's President. Within 24 hours the German Press, which had been lauding Nose-Thumber Greiser, slued around. It was suddenly discovered--or at least printed--that Adolf Hitler had been "furious" about the crude nose-thumbing, so lacking in "good tone." Thus rapped, Danzig's Greiser made most conciliatory and reassuring declarations to the Polish representative in Danzig, left spunky little Warsaw more than ever convinced that the way to deal with a Nazi is to smack him first.

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