Gazeta Polska (1929-1939)

:"This is about an interwar newspaper. For a modern weekly bearing the same name, see Gazeta Polska."

Gazeta Polska was an important newspaper of interwar Poland, published from 1929 to 1939 in Warsaw. It had a strong pro-sanacja bias, and was seen as a semi-official, or governmental news outlet of the sanacja-dominated Polish government. [cite web|title=Poles Find Hope for Reich Accord|date=1939-05-19|publisher=New York Times|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40B16FA3C54107A93CBA8178ED85F4D8385F9|accessdate=2008-08-21] cite book|title=Winston Churchill and Emery Reves|publisher=University of Texas Press|year=1997|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vA9mLWPZonUC&pg=PA188&dq=%22gazeta+polska%22+churchill&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U2cnMUgkAO0evRdR_bXjy3sKjDAQg] Within the sanacja politics, the Gazeta supported the "colonels" faction, and later, Edward Rydz-Śmigły. It often voiced calls for a more authoritarian government, and for a harsher treatment of the opposition.

Editors-in-chief: Adam Koc (1929-1931), Bogusław Miedziński (1931-1938), Mieczysław Starzyński (1938-1939).

Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski and Kazimierz Wierzyński were among the journalists associated with the newspaper. Winston Churchill's agreement with the paper was terminated after the 1934 German-Polish Press Agreement, which prohibited the publication of material that could have been "prejudicial to good relations between the two countries."

The volume of the newspaper grew from 15,000 in the early 1930s to 30,000 in the later part of the decade. The paper was closed in the aftermath of the German invasion of Poland, along with most of the other Polish newspapers.

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