Word: sejm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Witos watched his disciple with peasant skepticism. "Mikolajczyk is no peasant," he once growled. "He has neither the peasant's character, nor his sense of humor, nor his bad habits." But the peasants dissented. They kept voting for their Poznan farmer; in 1930 they sent him to the Sejm (Parliament) in Warsaw. When Witos was forced into exile, Mikolajczyk took over as chief of the Peasant Party, the largest of prewar Poland...
...acres. Also seized were all lands belonging to the Polish Government in Exile, to German citizens, to Poles convicted in Lublin's courts of treason or assisting the Germans. Seizure of property belonging to the Catholic Church or to "religious communities" would be decided on later when a Sejm (parliament) was elected...
...went into high gear with a Nazi propaganda campaign designed to persuade the Polish people to abandon all forms of passive resistance, "follow the wise example of France." Looking for a Polish Pétain, the Nazis approached the onetime Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Polish Sejm, tenacious and long-suffering Prince Janusz Radziwill. The landed, many-branched, internationally well-connected Radziwills, who trace their ancestry back to 15th-Century Ostyk Radziwill, are the Roosevelts of Poland...