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    Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic
    Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic
    Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic
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    Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic - Julian Batchinsky

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      Title: Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic

      Author: Julian Batchinsky

      Release Date: August 27, 2010 [EBook #33551]

      Language: English

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      Memorandum to the Government of the

      United States on the Recognition of

      the Ukrainian People's Republic.

      1920

      PUBLISHED BY

      FRIENDS OF UKRAINE

      345 MUNSEY BUILDING

      WASHINGTON, D.C.

      UKRAINIAN MISSION

      Washington, D.C.

      May 12, 1920.

      The Honorable, The Secretary of State,

      Department of State, Washington.

      Sir:

      In view of the present status in eastern Europe, and in deference to the unsettled affairs of the territory of the former Russian empire, which are now pressing for a definite solution, I, as the representative of the Government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, conceive it to be my duty to submit for your consideration this memorandum setting forth the just claims of the Ukrainian people to political and economic independence. As a consequence of the facts herein explained, I respectfully ask the Government of the United States of America to extend recognition to the Ukrainian People's Republic as a free state.

      The national aspirations of Ukraine embrace political liberation for all Ukrainians, consolidation of all free Ukrainians into one state, the erection of a constitutional democratic republic, and economic co-operation with neighboring and other states.

      Ukraine's claim to independence is based upon the following principal grounds:

      (1) The existence of the Ukrainians as a well-defined, separate, group-conscious race, with a continuous historic and cultural tradition;

      (2) Their occupation, over a period of centuries, of the lands where they now dwell;

      (3) Their age-long efforts, increasingly of popular origin, to achieve and

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