Author: Ukrainian Convention of the Connecticut

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-17

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9780267647606

Excerpt from Memorial and Petition for Liberty: Presented to the President of the United States and to the Peace Conference in Paris The part of Ukraine in question, being the subject of this peti tion, is Eastern Galicia and Kholm, the two provinces called West Ukraine and comprising an overwhelming majority, nearly 75 per cent. Of the Ukrainian population, which in arrogant spite of all principles of justice and humanity has been by a brute force of arms conquered by the imperialist Polish army and forcefully and against the will of the population annexed to Poland. Those two territories, kept for nearly six hundred years under a heel of a severe Polish oppression, have nevertheless preserved their Ukrainian character up to the present time, and now, when the time seemed near for their liberation, may we not ask the question: Are the same prominent persons going to hurl them in the abyss of slavery and ruin, who, standing at the brim of the abyss, preach the lofty ideas of liberty to them? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.