The Government in East Galicia (the West Ukrainian Re public) has, in every case, shown much understanding with respect to the demands of the Jewish inhabitants for autonomy. The Jews have here, as in Great Ukraine, without fighting and without any special exertions, attained what they have striven after and are still striving after in other countries, for instances in Poland and Roumania. It was, at least lately, necessary at the peace conference to fight some of the Poles. The arrangement with the Poles contains a whole series of provisions with respect to political and national rights for Jews, but all these together can not anywhere near equal the regulations of the Jewish question which have been established by the Central Rada in its grand law concerning national-personal autonomy. There is lacking a central Jewish school system ; there is even lacking an organ for Jewish autonomic organizations in the country, even the nucleus of national autonomy is lacking.
The Roumanians even refuse to give the Jews the slight admissions granted them by the Poles, but they will probably submit to the pressure exercised by the Allied Powers. No matter how this turns out, the Polish agreement does not contain the provisions that the Jews are striving for. The Jews in Ukraine will lose much if the imperialistic aspirations of the Poles, Russians and Roumanians for Ukrainian land should become a reality.
Israel Zangwill Commends New Republic's Attitude Toward the Jews in Ukraine
(A letter from Israel Zangwill, noted writer and President of the Jewish Territorial Organization, in reply to an invitation by the Ukrainian Government to participate in the commission for the investigation of Jewish pogroms in Ukraine.)
October 20, 1919. THE PRESIDENT OF THE DELEGATION OF THE
UKRAINIAN REPUBLIC DEAR SIR: —
I feel highly honored at the invitation of the Ukrainian Government to take part in the proposed Commission for the investigation of anti-Jewish pogroms, but I am away in Wales, resting under medical advice, and do not feel the strength to undertake the journey. Moreover, if Doctor Yochelman, a member of the Council of the Jewish Territorial Organization, forms one of