After you read the charges contained in documents which are being issued in Warsaw or in Rostov or in Moscow — use your own judgment. Ukraine is practically isolated from the rest of the world. The governments fighting the Ukrainian People's Republic disseminate the most foul charges against those they are trying to destroy. Recently in correspondence emanating from Rostov, and from Paris, the war between Denikin's Russian army and the Ukrainian People's army has been represented as ''a struggle for and against Israel." Denikin is protecting the Jews and this is why Petlura, who is relentlessly against them, has declared war against Denikin. I ask you to supply your hard business sense : can you think that these are differences between the Czarist generals and the Ukrainian People's Republic, of which government four Jews are a trusted part and a Jew is assistant secretary of war? Is this the issue?
I know that on this side of the water, we have to face a very great deal of misjudgment with regard to our national aims and principles.
Jewish Inquiry Invited in Name of Government.
In the name of the Ukrainian government, Simon Petlura, president of the Ukrainian People's Republic, issued a special message inviting the representatives of the Jews outside of Ukraine to investigate the pogroms and the attitude which the Ukrainian government has been taking and is taking toward the Jews. This message has been delivered to the Jewish committee in London.
Acting upon instruction from my government, I extend this invitation to the American Jews. Their representative organizations are requested — through their representative men, men of their choice and confidence — to look into the
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APPROXIMATE BOUNDARIES OF PEOPLES
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UKRAINE
AREA: 330,000 square miles.
POPULATION: 45.000,000.
FORM OF GOVERN- MENT: Republic.
ESTABLISHED: 1917. CAPITAL CITY; Kiev.
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sufferings of their brethren and sisters, to ascertain the causes and the consequences, to establish the responsibility and to take any steps it might be necesary to take to prevent future violence.
American Jews Particularly are Asked to Investigate.
In particular, the responsible organizations of American Jews are requested to investigate: whether the Ukrainian People's Republic is organized to brigandage and revolt against everybody and everything, or whether it has been founded to obtain independence of a long oppressed country, and whether the Ukrainian People's Republic is spreading racial hatred and intolerance, or whether it stands for equality, freedom and free development of nationalities and undictated autonomous self -development of any race or nationality in Ukraine; whether the Ukrainian People's Republic is warring upon the Jews, or whether the Jewish representatives are a responsible part of its government and Jewish men are fighting side by side with their Ukrainian fellowcitizens for Ukraine and for the common cause of all her people; whether the Ukrainian People's Republic is guilty of crimes committed against the Jewish population, or whether it has spent every energy to keep the Jews in Ukraine out of danger, to punish the criminals, and to heal the wounds of the sufferers.
Widespread Unprejudiced Consideration is Sought.
It is earnestly hoped that the results of this inquiry may receive wide-spread unprejudiced consideration.
I am speaking for the Ukrainian Government when I say that the investigation will meet with its support and approval, and I think that I can say with as much confidence that the investigators will find that all measures have been taken by the government to safeguard Jewish lives and interests and to secure to Jewish citizens of Ukraine the full enjoyment of their acknowledged rights. The Ukrainian People's Republic will live up to the hopes of so many of the best and truest Jews in Ukraine who put their trust in her.
Soldiers of the Ukrainian People's
Republic Ordered to Respect and Protect the Jews