On Wednesday, the legislature adopted a resolution to commemorate Roman Dmowski on his 160th birthday. "The legislature commemorates Roman Dmowski on its 160th birthday, expressing appreciation for his independency activities," the resolution states.
There were 70 Senators in favour of the resolution, 3 against, 9 abstentions. It reminds us that on 9 August the 160th anniversary of the birth of Roman Dmowski, politician and statesman, who is rightly counted among the Fathers of Polish Independence, together with Józef Piłsudski, Vincent Witos, Ignacy Daszyński, Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Wojciech Korfanty.
"Roman Dmowski's contribution to the restoration of our homeland's statehood in 1918 is undeniable. His large merit, which he shares with Ignacy Jan Paderewski, is to establish the reborn Republic of Poland in the global order of that time as an crucial and respected partner of Western countries, which was done during the peace conference in Paris," he stressed.
Dmowski in 1893, together with writer John Ludwik Popławski and sociologist Sigismund Balicki, founded the secret National League, as we read in the Act, "forming the foundations of a political camp which, alongside the independency socialism (with the protruding figures of Józef Piłsudski and Ignacy Daszyński) and the folk movement (with the resulting character Wincenty Witos) became 1 of the main forces on the map of independency environments before planet War I".
In 1903, Dmowski published the most crucial book in his achievements Thoughts of a Modern Pole. "It is in this publication that the celebrated words: I am Polish – so I have Polish responsibilities: they are the bigger and the stronger I feel for them, the taller I present the kind of man“ – attention was drawn.
During the First planet War, which opened up the chances of Polish independence, Dmowski promoted the option of taking sides with the Entents against the countries that caused and lost the war. "He led the Polish National Committee established on 15 August 1917 in Lausanne, which became a political representation of the Polish case in the West", was given.
"The biggest accomplishment and at the same time the culmination of Roman Dmowski's independency way were effective and professional treatments for Polish borders at the peace conference in Paris, where he and Ignacy Jan Paderewski represented Poland among the 27 winning countries participating in it. He was celebrated for his eloquent speeches and accruals on Polish borders. His celebrated five-hour speech on 29 January 1919 before the Council of Ten, consisting of the most crucial politicians of the planet at the time, was passed into history, and was given alternately in French and English," he noted.
28 June 1919. Dmowski and Paderewski signed under the Treaty of Versailles restoring Poland to the map of Europe. "This event, entering a long way leading to the inclusion of Poles in the free peoples of Europe, will always stay a clear point of our history", was assessed.
The resolution states that "The legislature of the Republic of Poland commemorates Roman Dmowski on his 160th birthday, expressing appreciation for his independency activities".
Source: PAP
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