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Eustachy Sapieha | |
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 Eustachy Sapieha | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland | |
| In office 23 June 1920 – 20 May 1921 | |
| Preceded by | Stanisław Patek |
| Succeeded by | Jan Dąbski (acting) |
| Member of theSejm | |
| In office 1928–1929 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1881-08-02)2 August 1881 Biłka Szlachecka,Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 20 February 1963(1963-02-20) (aged 81) Nairobi,Kenya |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Political party | Nonpartisan |
| Occupation | Politician |
Eustachy Kajetan Sapieha (2 August 1881 – 20 February 1963) was aPolish nobleman,prince of theSapieha family, politician,Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, and deputy to the Polish parliament (Sejm).
In 1900–04, he studied forestry inZurich and afterwards earned a degree as an engineer. He was a conservative activist fromKresy, and worked with the German installedRegency Council andJózef Piłsudski during theFirst World War. In 1917 he unsuccessfully negotiated with thePolish National Committee. Afterwards, disappointed with Piłsudski's leftist policies, he was an organizer ofthe failed 1919coup d'état; despite that, he subsequently worked with Piłsudski and supported him. During thePolish-Soviet War, he served in the cavalry.
On 16 June 1919, Sapieha was delegated as the ambassador of Poland to theUnited Kingdom. On 4 June 1920 he and Erazm Piltz, representing the Polish government, signed theTreaty of Trianon in Paris.
In 1920, he was chosen byPrime MinisterWładysław Grabski to be Minister of Foreign Affairs. Although he successfully negotiated several agreements with Western powers, he was faced with the delicate situation over the plebiscites inUpper Silesia. On 24 March 1921 the British Embassy[1] atWarsaw wrote to Earl Curzon in London to say that he had just called upon Prince Sapieha whom he found "very depressed at the result of voting in Upper Silesia, which has on the whole turned out far worse than the Polish Government had anticipated...He agreed with me that the victory reports in the newspapers were foolish and any public rejoicing regrettable."[2] His negotiations over federation withLithuania also failed and, faced with criticism from theNational Democrats, he resigned his post later in the year.
In 1928–29 he was a Sejm deputy from theNonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government. After theSoviet invasion of Poland in 1939 he was arrested by the Soviets and imprisoned in theLubyanka prison. After theSikorski-Mayski Agreement, he joinedAnders' Army. In 1941 he travelled to Kenya. He did not return to post-war communist Poland, and remained inNairobi.
In 1956 he was awarded theOrder of the White Eagle by thePolish government in exile.
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