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DATE: MONDAY, August 2, 1993                   TAG: 9308020090
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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FORMER POLISH DIPLOMAT DIES AT 101

Count Edward Raczynski, a Polish diplomat who was foreign minister in the Polish government-in-exile in London during part of the Nazi occupation of his homeland in World War II, died Friday at his home in London. He was 101.

The cause was cardiac arrest, said his nephew, Richard Rodzinski of Fort Worth, Texas. He said the count, whose eyesight had failed years before, had been dictating reminiscences until three days before his death.

Razcynski was the Polish ambassador to Britain from 1934 to 1945 and a prominent figure in the diplomacy of the last days before World War II. He also was acting foreign minister in the exile government in 1941 and 1942 and minister of state in charge of foreign affairs in 1942 and 1943.

The count, as ambassador to Britain, also signed the Aug. 25, 1939, treaty in which Britain guaranteed assistance to Poland against German aggression. - The New York Times 


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