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| | Polish government in exile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Though largely unrecognised and without effective power after the end of the war, it remained in existence until the end of Communist rule in Poland in 1990 when it formally handed over its responsibility to the new government. |
 | | On September 17, 1939, the President of the Polish Republic, Ignacy Moscicki, who was then in the small town of Kosow near the southern Polish border, signed an act appointing Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, the Speaker of the Senate, as his successor. |
 | | This was done in accordance with Article 24 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, which provided as follows: |
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