From May 11 to July 4, 1940, Păiș was undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Air Force and Navy in the government of Gheorghe Tătărescu.
On August 30, Păiș participated in a meeting of King Carol II's Crown Council, where he was (alongside David Popescu, Gheorghe Mihail, and Ernest Ballif [ro]) one of the four out of five military representatives who recommended accepting the provisions of the Second Vienna Award, by which Romania were to cede Northern Transylvania to Hungary.
[1] During the World War II-era rule of Ion Antonescu, Păiș served as naval undersecretary of state from 4 April 1941 to 19 February 1943, when he resigned.
[2] Rearrested by the communist regime in August 1948, he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment the following January as a former dignitary under Antonescu.
[2] He died a year later in cell 27,[5] and his body was buried in a mass grave in Sighetu Marmației, on the banks of the Iza River.