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issue governing the right of the Polish Navy to use Danzig harbour and managed to obtain a resolution satisfactory to Poland. Zaleski's offer was taken and Drummond successfully pressured the Free City into settling the
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which held the role of the president of Poland until Zaleski properly resigned his post. However, in reality, for almost twenty years, the Council and Zaleski both claimed the position simultaneously.
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had been sent into the harbour of the Free City of Danzig (modern Gdańsk, Poland) without the permission of the Senate of the Free City. Although Zaleski had not been personally informed that the
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as prime minister. However, by the end of his seven-year term, Zaleski was facing opposition and was at odds with much of the political elite. His response was to extend his term and name
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was scheduled to visit, a confrontation that would potentially cause a German-Polish war, Zaleski wanted the League to pressure the Free City to resolve the
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The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936: French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarization of the Rhineland
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In 1918, when Poland regained her independence, Zaleski proved to be a skilled diplomat and served in various posts in Polish embassies in
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August Zaleski died in London on 7 April 1972. Among his papers two conflicting nominations for his successor were found: one naming
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was going to Danzig, he put up an able defence of Poland in the League Assembly and Council. In talks with the Secretary-General Sir
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Zaleski's papers pertaining to his diplomatic work and Polish life during and after World War II are held in the collection of the
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In June 1932, Zaleski was attending a session of the League of Nations in Geneva when he found himself thrust in the middle of the
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In exile, August Zaleski again became minister of foreign affairs, this time in the government of General
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of 1926 he sided with the camp of Marshal Józef Piłsudski and, until 1932, held the post of
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as prime minister. Many Poles in exile (Bór-Komorowski and
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in England to the mausoleum for emigree presidents at the
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Between 1928 and 1935, Zaleski was a member of the Polish
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in London. Around that time he also became interested in
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amongst them) considered this unlawful and created the
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Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
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Index


President of Poland
In exile
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
Tadeusz Tomaszewski
Roman Odzierzyński
Jerzy Hryniewski
Stanisław Cat-Mackiewicz
Hugon Hanke
Antoni Pająk
Aleksander Zawisza
Zygmunt Muchniewski
Władysław Raczkiewicz
Stanisław Ostrowski
Warsaw
Congress Poland
Russian Empire
London
Independent
freemason
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Republic of Poland
President of Poland
in-exile
Warsaw
gymnasium
Praga
Krasiński family
London School of Economics
Polish

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