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General Sir R. Haking was appointed High Commissioner by a
Resolution of the Council dated December 17th, 1920. His appointment, which was renewed in the meantime, finally expired on
February 3rd, 1923. On February rst, 1923, the Council appointed
Mr. M. S. MacDonnell to succeed him.
Amongst the supplementary \"arrangements and agreements\"
above referred to, the Treaty of Versailles provides that a convention should be concluded between the Polish Government and the f
Free City with the object, amongst others, of ensuring to Poland
\"the control and administration of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communicatioa between Poland and the Port of Danzig\".
According to the reply dated June 16th, 1919, made by the
Allied and Associated Powers to the observations of the German
delegation on the conditions of peace (which reply was moreover
cjted in the report made by the Japanese representative on November 17th, 1920, to the Council of the League of Nations), this provision was one of those designed to assure to Poland free accessto the sea at the port of Danzig, its only outlet on the Baltic.
The Convention in question was signed at Paris on November gth,
. - 1920. Chapter IV of the Convention, containing Articles 29-32,
deals with the rights accruing to Poland in the port of Danzig - ..
as regards postal arrangements.
Furthermore, Article 39 of the Convention lays down the procedure for the settlement of possible differences between Poland
and the Free City outlined by the Treaty of Versailles.
By an agreement concluded between the Parties on June zoth,
1921, and confirmed by the Council on the following day, the time
allowed for appeal was fixed at forty days from the notification
of the decision.
The Convention provided for the subsequent conclusion between
the contracting Parties of a further agreement. This agreement,
which was designed to complete the said Convention and to settle
4 the details of its execution, was signed at Warsaw on October 24th,
,.\' ,i\' 1921 ; it contains a Section III devoted to postal matters and comprising twenty articles (149-168).
Articles 168, 1), and 240 d-f of the Agreement show that a number
of outstanding questions regarding postal matters were expressly i reserved for future settlement either by mutual arrangement or by . means of decisions given in accordance with the terms of Article 39
of the Convention of Paris.