Ukraine on the Road to Freedom; Selections of Articles, Reprints and Communications Concerning the Ukrainian People in Europe (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919. Excerpt: ... MEMORIAL Drawn up to the President of the United States of America by the Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Council of Lviv, which acts as the provisional government of the Galician-Ukrainian State constructed of the Ukrainian territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Mr. President: The provisional government of the independent Galician State which arose recently from the Ukrainian territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy begs to inform the President that in accordance with the principle declared by him, the Ukrainian people of Austria-Hungary elected the Ukrainian National Council at the national Constituent Assembly held in Lviv, which Assembly simultaneously passed a resolution to unite the Ukrainian territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy into one independent State. The Ukrainian National Council was established through the election of an Executive Committee of nine, which as the provisional government will attend to the affairs of the State. In the name of this newly-founded State, its government has now the honor of replying to the note of the Secretary of State of the United States of America addressed on the 18th of October to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary, inasmuch as the Ministry no longer exists and the note is in reality addressed to all the sovereign peoples of the AustroHungarian Monarchy. The above-mentioned note contains a refusal to enter into negotiations with the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy concerning an armistice or peace, because, as was stated, the Czecho-Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs, being in a state of war with this Monarchy, have the right to decide upon their own future. This note contains no mention of other peoples. It does not mention the Ukrainian people, which in Aus...