Bishop Edward O’Rourke: repeatedly and prophetically warned of what the Nazis would do to Europe when they were finished with Danzig The first meeting of Sean Lester with Edward O’Rourke reads like something from a Shaw comedy of manners. In his diary for 1934, Lester, a Protestant Irish diplomat, described the arrival into his room of a bespectacled local bishop waving an Irish magazine and coughing his way through an unfamiliar Irish cigarette. It was 1934 and both were powerful anti-fascist voices in what is today’s Gdansk, Poland’s Baltic port city. Back then it was the Free City of Danzig,...