Wincenty Rzymowski

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| office = Minister of Foreign Affairs

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| predecessor = Edward Osóbka-Morawski

| successor = Zygmunt Modzelewski

| term_start = June 1945

| term_end = 6 February 1947

| office1 = Minister of Culture

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| predecessor1 = Zygmunt Kaczyński

| successor1 = Edmund Zalewski

| term_start1 = 21 June 1944

| term_end1 = 2 May 1945

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1883|6|19|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kuczbork-Osada, Congress Poland, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1950|4|30|1883|6|19|df=y}}

| death_place = Warsaw, Polish People's Republic

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| party = Polish United Workers' Party

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| alma_mater = Odesa University

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| nationality = Polish

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| profession = Politician, diplomat, writer

| awards = Order of the Banner of Labour
Order of Polonia Restituta
Medal for Warsaw 1939–1945
Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945
Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic
Order of Stara Planina

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Wincenty Rzymowski (19 July 1883 – 30 April 1950) was a Polish politician and writer.

Career

In the Second Polish Republic, Wincenty Rzymowski was a member of the Democratic Party and a known publicist. He was also forced to resign his membership in the Polish Academy of Literature in a controversy involving allegations of plagiarism.{{cite web | url=http://www.ipn.gov.pl/portal/pl/398/4916/ | title=Wincenty Rzymowski (1883–1950) | publisher=Instytut Pamięci Narodowej | date=2011 | access-date=December 13, 2011}}

During World War II he began collaborating with the Soviets. He joined the Union of Polish Patriots, was a Minister of Arts and Culture in the Polish Committee of National Liberation and a Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government of National Unity, formed by Stalin. He represented Poland during the signing of the United Nations Charter.{{citation|url=https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/99-1027 |title=Wincenty Rzymowski of the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity Signing the United Nations Charter |publisher=Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum |access-date=13 January 2020}} In January 1946, he was a Soviet candidate for the position of the first Secretary General of the United Nations, but opposed by the United States.{{Cite journal |last=Hamilton |first=Thomas J. |date=1950 |title=The U. N. and Trygve Lie |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20030815 |journal=Foreign Affairs |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=69 |doi=10.2307/20030815 |jstor=20030815 |issn=0015-7120|url-access=subscription }} The two powers eventually compromised on Trygve Lie, a socialist from Norway.

Wincenty Rzymowski was also a deputy to the State National Council and Legislative Sejm. From 1947 till the end of his life he was a minister without portfolio in the Polish communist government.