Regency council

At least a counter-demonstration had to respond to the Lausanian-Parisian act. 12 September [1917 r.] Two emperors created the Regency Council with 3 members: They stayed on an equal footing: Warsaw Archbishop Aleksander Kakowski, Zdzisław Lubomirski, The President of Warsaw and the landowner Józef Ostrowski, President of Warsaw and landowner, realistic. Their main adviser to KS. Zygmunt Chełmicki; referendary with the prospect of a legislative initiative – historian Józef Siemieński. Regencies undoubtedly considered their task to save the Polish case in the event of the victory of the Germans, There could be no question of waking up the latter without risking inter -party wheels. Regencies took power [27 October 1917 r.] and appointed the prime minister – After Berlin's rejection of Adam Tarnowski's candidacy, as too Austrophilian – Jan Kucharzewski. Range [competence] The Polish government was to expand as successive. As for the area, it was already certain, that the Kingdom of Poland will not extend to Lithuania, and it was possible to include the Lublin region in Galicia. To prevent this, Kucharzewski was inclined to the Austropolian concept, But already in this modest approach, to proclaim Emperor Karol to the king of the congresses.

In the eyes of emperors and German monarchists, the regency was based on the assumption, that there is a monarchy. People, for whom the reality and basis of the system was a nation, they counted primarily with the opinion of the general. Well, the general Polish from national democrats to socialists responded to the Regency Council negatively. When the regencies later appointed a state of life, as a kind of postulated parliament with Marshal Franciszek Pułaski – Almost all of the Sejmów and Cities Choosing (55) They turned out to be "passivists" and had to be appointed to balance them (Near 12 centrifugal) 43 activists, to write in such an attached group not so much law, what various gravamina against Germany. Outside, Abroad, the Regency Council had its influence – inhibiting the creation of the Polish army in Russia and discrediting Dmowski's work as much as possible.