COSSACK STATE
GERMAN NEGOTIATION.
FEDERATION PROPOSAL
MOVE AGAINST COMMUNISM
(United Press Association —By Electric
Telegraph- -Copyright.)
Received February 20, 11.50 a.m PRAGUE, Eeb. 19.
Semi-official Slovak sources reveal that General Popov, the former Chief of the Ukrainian Cossacks, and liis aide-de-camp, Sergie Federov, recently discussed with German Government officials in Berlin the formation of a Ukrainian Federation.
It is understood an agreement was reached on four points: (1) All anti-Communist Cossacks to be gathered under unified control and steps taken tor the eventual creation of a Cossack Army.
(2) The creation of an independent Cossack State, to be named the “Federation of the South-East,"’ comprising an area of 194,000 square miles with a population of fifteen million. (3) Treaties of friendship between the federation and all its neiglilmurs. (4) A precautionary measure against any attacks upon the new State by Russia.
Upon his return to Prague, Federov claimed that the federation would make it possible for the Reich to shelve for the time being the plans to create a Greater Ukraine, which obviously at present could not he realised without a conflict with the Soviet.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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