On Wednesday 25 September, 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. The application to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the birth of the main ideologist of the National Democracy was signed by Senators Halina Bieda, Ryszard Bober, Andrzej Dziuba, Tomasz Grodzki, Stanisław Karczewski, Marcin Karpiński, Marek Komorowski, Stanisław Pawlak, Waldemar Pawlak, Wojciech Skurkiewicz, Wadim Tyszkiewicz and Maciej Żywno. There were 70 Senators in favour of the resolution, 3 against, 9 abstentions.
REPEAL OF THE SENAT OF THE POLISH REPUBLIC on 25.09.2024 on the commemoration of Roman Dmowski on the 160th anniversary of his birth.
"On August 9, this year, 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, Wincenty Witos, Ignacy Daszyński, Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Wojciech Korfante. Roman Dmowski's contribution to our homeland's recovery of its statehood in 1918 is undeniable. His large merit, which he shares with Ignacy Jan Paderewski, is to establish the reborn Republic in the global order of that time as an crucial and respected partner of Western countries, which was done at the peace conference in Paris. Roman Dmowski in 1893, together with writer John Ludwik Popławski and sociologist Sigismund Balicki, founded the secret National League, forming the foundations of a political camp, which, alongside social independenceism (with the rising figures of Józef Piłsudski and Ignacy Daszyński) and the folk movement (with the rising figure of Vincent Witos) became 1 of the main forces on the map of independency environments before planet War I.
In 1903, Roman Dmowski published the most crucial book in his work “The Thoughts of a Modern Pole”. It is in this publication that the celebrated words are said: “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.”
During planet War I, which opened up the chances of Polish independence, Roman Dmowski promoted the option of taking sides with the Entents against the countries that caused and lost the war. He headed the Polish National Committee established in Lausanne on 15 August 1917, which became a political representation of the Polish case in the West.
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 January 29, 1919, before the Council of Ten, consisting of the most crucial politicians of the planet at the time, was passed to history.
On 28 June 1919, Roman Dmowski, together with Ignacy Jan Paderewski, signed under the Treaty of Versailles restoring Poland to a map of Europe. This event, entering a long way leading to the inclusion of Poles in the free nations of Europe, will always stay a clear point of our history.
The legislature of the Republic of Poland commemorates Roman Dmowski on the 160th anniversary of his birth, expressing appreciation for his independency activities".
