The importance of the "Moscicki resignation" question is that it reveals that after Moscicki and the Polish government had crossed into Rumania on September 17, 1939, Poland had no government at all.

We can tell this in two ways:

1. Moscicki knew there was no other President of Poland (he had not resigned). Yet he could not be President because he could not carry out any official functions while interned in Rumania. Therefore, Poland had no government.

2. Rumania was unhappy with this situation, since
(a) the Rumanian authorities knew that Moscicki would claim he had "resigned" in favor of some figure who was not in either Poland or Rumania, but
(b) this would anger Hitler, since resignation is a political act, while Rumania was obligated by its neutrality to prevent the interned Polish government from any political acts. For Rumania to permit the Polish government to carry out political acts would be an act incompatible with its neutrality -- in effect, an act hostile to Germany.

Therefore Rumanian authorities made up a false story that Moscicki had already resigned on September 15, while he was still in Poland and, therefore, still President of Poland. The problem was that Moscicki was still "expressing the wish to resign" on September 29 -- something he would not have done, of course, had he really resigned on September 15!

Moscicki's and the Rumanian government's acts demonstrate that they both agreed about one thing: Since September 17, 1939, Poland had had no government. And that meant that Poland was no longer a "state" under international law (see state_international_law.html