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The purpose of this article is to present the views of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, the United States' Ambassador in Warsaw, concerning the international situation of the Second Republic of Poland from 1937 to 1939. This subject, scarcely represented in Polish historiography,shows the perspective of the American Ambassador on the role of Poland in Europe and reveales his assessment of the "balance of power" policy conducted by minister Józef Beck in the period preceding the outbreak of the Second World War. It appears that Biddle basically shared the Polish perspective on the threat posed by Hitler's Germany and the Soviet Union while emphasizing the crucial role of Poland in further political-military developments in Europe. Accordingly, he supported the Polish will to resist the imminen tGerman aggression since Warsaw's attitude was in his eyes a peculiar "barometer" of British and French readiness to contain German expansion. Although Biddle's position in late 1930s could not influence the policies of the U.S. and European powers toward Poland, it sheds an interesting light on Polish foreign policy and its reception by Western powers,contributing to better understanding of this decisive period of Poland's history. This article was based on analysis of diplomatic papers and the correspondence of Ambassador Biddle from1937 to 1939.
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Tematem artykułu jest kwestia wpływu sytuacji międzynarodowej na kształt polskich dwudziestowiecznych ustaw zasadniczych i określenie, w jaki sposób polski ustrojodawca umożliwiał realizację założeń polskiej polityki zagranicznej. W pierwszej części opracowania omówiony został wpływ sytuacji międzynarodowej na postanowienia Konstytucji z 1921 r. i 1935 r., ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem przepisów odnoszących się do czasu wojny. W części drugiej artykułu zwrócono uwagę na kwestie zmian ustrojowych związanych z przynależnością Polski do państw bloku wschodniego. Część trzecia artykułu dotyczy wpływu sytuacji geopolitycznej na kształt reform konstytucyjnych w okresie transformacji ustrojowej Polski. W ostatniej części opracowania dokonano analizy wpływu polskich dążeń do integracji europejskiej i wstąpienia do NATO na kształt obecnie obowiązującej Konstytucji z 1997 r.
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The subject of the article is the issue of the impact of the international situation on the shape of Polish twentieth-century fundamental laws and the determination of how the Polish constitutional legislator made it possible to implement the assumptions of Polish foreign policy. The first part of the article discusses the impact of the international situation on the provisions of the Constitutions of 1921 and 1935, with particular emphasis on the provisions relating to wartime. The second part of the article draws attention to the issues of political changes related to Poland’s membership in the Eastern Bloc countries. The third part of the article concerns the impact of the geopolitical situation on the shape of constitutional reforms during the period of Poland’s political transformation. The last part of the article analyzes the impact of Polish aspirations for European integration and NATO accession on the shape of the currently binding Constitution of 1997.
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