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As a student, he became active in the "Zet" Polish Youth Association ( Zwiazek Mlodziezy Polskiej "Zet" ). He organized a student street demonstration on the 100th anniversary of the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791. For this he was imprisoned by the Russian Tsarist authorities for half a year at the Warsaw Citadel. Later he headed the National League ( Liga Narodowa ). In 1895Events January events January 5 Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. February events February 14 First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnes he settled in Lwow, and in 1897 co-founded the National-Democratic Party ( Stronnictwo Narodowo-Demokratyczne ). In 1898Events January 1 New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. January 13 Emile Zola's J'accus- 19001900 is the common year starting on Monday. see link for calendar) For the film, see 1900 (film). Events January January 1 Nigeria becomes British protectorate January 2 John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. January 2 Chicag he resided in FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. and EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England. In the face of a growing threat from GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east, he declared for tactical Polish cooperation with Tsarist Russia and brought about a similar reorientation in the whole organization (the faction opposed to the new policy split away). In 1901 he returned to Poland, taking up residence in Krakow.
Upon the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) Dmowski traveled to Japan in a successful effort to prevent that country from providing Jozef Pilsudski with assistance for an insurrection in Poland.
In 1905 Dmowski moved to Warsaw. He was a deputy to the Second and Third Russian Dumas and president of the Polish club. In 1915 he went abroad to open a campaign on behalf of Poland in the capitals of the western Allies. In 1917, in Paris, he created a Polish National Committee aimed at rebuilding a Polish state. He was a Polish delegate at the Paris Peace Conference and a signer of the Versailles Treaty. He had a substantial influence on the Treaty's favorable decisions regarding Poland.
Dmowski was a political opponent of Jozef Pilsudski. He favored a national state, most of whose citizens would speak Polish and be of the Catholic faith. He was accused of antisemitism, though he is quoted as saying that "A Poland without Jews would be like a soup without pepper: tasteless." If Pilsudski's vision of Poland was the Jagiellonian one of a multinational federation, Dmowski's vision was the earlier Piast one of an ethnically rather homogeneous state.
Dmowski was a deputy to the 1919 Sejm and minister of foreign affairs from October to December 1923.
In 1926 he founded the Camp of Great Poland ( Oboz Wielkiej Polski ), and in 1928 the National Party ( Stronnictwo Narodowe ).
Dmowski died at Drozdow, near Lomza, where he had spent the last several years of his life. He never married.