A Ukrainian Federation
(Received 2.30 p.m.) PRAGUE, February 19. Semi-official Slovak sources reveal that General Popoff, former chief of the Ukrainian Cossacks, and his laide de camp, Sergie Federoff, recently discussed with German Government officials in Berlin the formation of a ... Ukrainian Federation. It is understood agreement was •reached on four points: 1. —All anti-Communist Cossiacks should be gahered under unified control, and steps taken for the eventual creation of a Cossack army, 2. Creation of an Independent Cossack State, it be named the “Fedei'ation of the South-East,” comprising an area of 194,000 square miles, with a population of 15,000,000. 3. —Treaties of friendship between the federation and all its neighbours. 4. Precautionary measures against \ any attacks upon the new State by , Russia. Upon return to Phague, General Federoff claimed that the federation would make it possible for the Reich to shelve for the time being plans to create a Greater Ukraine, which ob- : viously at present could not be rea- , ~,Jised without conflict with the Soviet.
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Northern Advocate, 21 February 1939, Page 5
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167A Ukrainian Federation Northern Advocate, 21 February 1939, Page 5
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