Treaty of Peace with Germany; Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Sixty-Sixth Congress, First Session on the Treaty of Peace with Germany, Signed at Versailles on June 28, 1919, and Submitted Volume 2 (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 edition. Excerpt: ...jails and coercions, take revenge on the Ukrainians for their refusal to continue under the Polish dominion, for their desire to become free. Poland's object is to extirpate the Ukrainians of Eastern Galicia in order thus to safeguard her control of the country. Delivering Eastern Galicia under the Polish rule, did the Supreme Council take under consideration the fact that thus it delivers all the Ukrainian people of this country into the hands of their enemy, to be killed, tortured, persecuted, without any possible protection in sight? Should one even suppose that the Ukrainian people have no right to freedom and independence, even then the consideration of humanity should nave recommended to grant some protection to those millions of the Ukrainians, with whom the Polish authorities may deal in the way they please, pretending before the Supreme Council that they "are destroying Bolshevist bands.' It is stated by the Supreme Council that it has authorized Poland to occupy Eastern Galicia in order to protect the peaceful population against Bolshevist bands. As a matter of fact, however, there was no Bolshevism in Eastern Galicia under the rule of the Ukrainian Government. Quite the contrary, the Ukrainian army of Eastern Galicia defending the country against the Polish invasion from the west, at the same time took a prominent part in the war of the Ukrainian Republic against the invasion of the Russian Bolsheviki from the East. And after Russian Bolshevist army invaded Ukraine, penetrating to the river of Zbrucz, it was here that the Ukrainian army of Eastern Galicia blocked their way and prevented them from uniting with Hungarian Bolsheviki. This the State Secretariat of Western Ukraine has done, after it had rejected favorable offers of the...