National Party (Poland)

National Party Stronnictwo Narodowe
Abbreviation	SN
Leader	Roman Dmowski Tadeusz Bielecki
President	Joachim Bartoszewicz Kazimierz Kowalski Tadeusz Bielecki
Founded	7 October 1928; 95 years ago (7 October 1928)
Dissolved	1947; 77 years ago (1947)
Preceded by	Popular National Union
Headquarters	Warsaw, Poland
Newspaper	Gazeta Warszawska Warszawski Dziennik Narodowy Myśl Narodowa
Student wing	All-Polish Youth
Youth wing	Youth Section of the National Party (SM SN)
Women's wing	National Women's Organization (NOK)
Membership	200,000 (1938 est.)[1]
Ideology	Polish nationalism National Democracy (Poland) National Catholicism National conservatism Polish irredentism Parliamentarism[2] Antisemitism[2] Germanophobia Pan-Slavism Distributism
Political position	Right-wing
Religion	Catholicism
Colors	White   Red   Green
Slogan	Czołem Wielkiej Polsce ("Hail Great Poland")
Anthem	"Hymn Młodych" ("Youth Anthem")
Election symbol
Szczerbiec
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The National Party (Polish: Stronnictwo Narodowe, SN) was a Polish nationalist^[3] political party formed on 7 October 1928 after the transformation of the Popular National Union. It gathered together most of the political forces of Poland's National Democracy right-wing political camp. Shortly before World War II the party had 200,000 members, being the largest opposition party of that time.^[4]

In the 1930s, the two main factions competed within the party, the "old generation" and "young generation", divided by age and political programs. The old generation supported the parliamentary means of political competition, while the activist young generation advocated the extra-parliamentary means of political struggle. In 1935, the young activists took over the leadership of the party. In 1934, a significant part of the young faction split off from the SN, forming the National-Radical Camp. During World War II, many SN activists joined the National Armed Forces and National Military Organization resistance organizations.