overnment of that Republic is earnestly working with every means in its power to insure to its Jewish population the same civil and political rights and the same full measure of protection to life, liberty, and property that it guarantees to all law-abiding citizens.
A dispassionate reading of the facts as herein presented, including the testimony of several among the world's most prominent Jewish leaders, is invited in the belief that it can not fail to convince all fair-minded Americans that the Ukrainian People 's Republic is founded upon these principles of Justice and Equality that inevitably shall result in a "Government of the People, by the People, for the People."
The Jewish Pogroms in Ukraine and the Ukrainian People's Republic
JULIAN BATCHINSKY
the Ukrainian Diplomatic Representative to the United States
(A Letter to the Editors of American Newspapers, published in October and November, 1919, by the New York Globe, the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Brooklyn Eagle, St, Louis Jewish Voice, New Orleans Jewish Ledger, N. Y. Hebrew Standard, Jewish Monitor of Fort Worth, Texas, Jewish Advocate of Boston, Mass. ,N. Y. Evening Post, and others.)
DEAR SIR: —
Will you grant me an opportunity to say what I know and what I feel about the Jewish pogroms in Ukraine?
While all the distressing particulars of the tragedy and the number of mournful casualties are still to be ascertained, let us still hope that they have been smaller than reported in days of peril and anguish. The facts can not and must not be denied or justified or excused. However, they should be more clearly understood by every Jew and by every Ukrainian, by the American democracy, and by the world at large. In the name of humanity and for the future of Ukraine we should take a common stand, Jews and Ukrainians, that responsibility be fixed and punishment be brought to the guilty ; that the wrongs committed there be righted, and that Ukraine be made a safe home for all its citizens, Jews and Gentiles alike.
A Republic "By and For People of All Creeds and
Races."
I would be derelict to the duty laid upon me by my government and to the principles upon which it is acting and fightiiig if I should express any other opinion. Neither can I keep silent. The Ukrainian People's Republic is intended by the people and for the people of all creeds and races of Ukraine. Though guiltless, We owe it to a due regard for our own rights as a nation that we do not hide ourselves behind the excuse that we are not our brother's keeper.
So sincerely do we believe in these things that I speak the mind and the wish of my government when I say that it is its earnest desire and purpose that full justice be done to the Jewish people in Ukraine in their time of distress and dismay. The government of the Ukrainian People 's Republic is anxious that an international investigation, careful and detailed, without any political consideration and without favor or disfavor to any one, should look into every crime committed on the bloodstained soil of Ukraine and establish the responsibility of the criminals.
Ready to Accept any Inquiry ~by America and American Jews.
It is ready to accept any inquiry that may be made by America and by American Jews. It insists that the Ukrainian People's Republic, its aims as well as its ways and means, and the Ukrainian national movement in general be included and submitted to a most scrupulous examination.
I beg only the privilege that the heading of the indictment, ' ' Pogroms in Ukraine, ' ' may not by itself and not in advance imply a ready judgment upon the Ukrainian People's Republic and its government. They are protecting the land and the people of Ukraine against things that they can not control or alter, namely, the action of others.