East Central Europe between the Two World Wars

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Joseph Rothschild. East Central Europe between the Two World Wars

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A History of East Central Europe

East Central Europebetween the Two World Wars

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The next four years witnessed the accelerating degeneration of Polish parliamentary life and of governmental stability. Piłsudski’s response to the constitutional engineering of the Right was to decline nomination to the presidency. The new Sejm and Senate, sitting jointly as the National Assembly, thereupon elected Gabriel Narutowicz on December 9, 1922, in an exceedingly bitter contest requiring five ballots. The winning balance of 289 versus 227 was supplied by a coalition of the Left, the Center, and the National Minorities. A week later, on December 16, 1922, the new president was assassinated by a rightist fanatic because he owed his margin of victory to non-Polish votes. The murder deepened the chasm between the Right and Piłsudski, who never forgave the National Democrats for what he regarded as their moral responsibility for the murder of Poland’s first president.

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