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A NICE CLEAN BLOCK OF 4, MINT NEVER HINGED - DAY OF ISSUE 21 NOVEMBER 1989. Roman Dmowski and Ignacy Jan Padarewski (the politician, musician and composer) are represented on the stamp as key participants of Poland´s delegation at the Paric Peace talks leading to the Treaty of Versailles.
At the end of World War I, two governments claimed to be the legitimate governments of Poland: Dmowski´s in Paris and Pisudski´s in Warsaw. To put an end to the rival claims of Pilsudski and Dmowski, the composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski met with both men and persuaded them to reluctantly join forces. Both men had something that the other needed. Pilsudski was in possession of Poland after the war, but as the Pole who had fought with the Austrians for the Central Powers against the Russians, he was distrusted by the Allies. Pilsudski´s newly reborn Polish Army needed arms from the Allies, something that only Dmowski could persuade the Allies to deliver upon. Beyond that, the French were planning to send the Blue Army of General Jozef Haller — loyal to Dmowski — back to Poland. The fear was that if Pilsudski and Dmowski did not put aside their differences, a civil war might break out between the partisans of Pilsudski and Dmowski. Paderewski was successful in working out a compromise in which Dmowski and himself were to represent Poland at the Paris Peace Conference while Pilsudski was to serve as provisional president of Poland.
The Treaty of Versailles, French: le Traité de Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties. Although the armistice signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty. The treaty was registered by the Secretariat of the League of Nations on 21 October 1919, and was printed in The League of Nations Treaty Series.
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