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There can be no doubt that the only aim of the ple-biscite was to mislead the whole world ab out the true State of affairs and to show that those territories should have never formed a part of Poland. This is all the morę significant if v?e remember that no plebiscite was held in Eastern Ukrainę after the military defeat of the legał Ukrainian Republican Porces by the Red Army in 1919.

The same methods were used by the Soviets later in Latvia, lithuania and Estonia. Everywhere the declaration was carried unanimously and amounted to over 90$ of the votes. It seems rather characteristic of all the dictato-rial regimes to have a 90$ majority at elections and other occasions where the people express their "free opinion"„

The best expression of the true feelings of the people could be seen from their wide-spread opposition to the new rule and from the fact that the Soviet administration found it necessary to put in goal the whole Ukrainian in-telligentsia, which did not escape to Gernsn-occupied Poland. About 500.000 Ukrainian and Byelorussian peasants and workers were deported from Galicia and Volhynia to Siberia and Central Asia. In order that they could adopt themselves easier to the new beneficent rule, they were driven out of their own homes and workrooms and sentenced to forced labour in most distant regions of the Soviet Union. When retreating from these territories in 1941 the Soviets have executed several thousands of imprisoned Ukrain!ans.

UKRAINĘ.

Ukrainę is not a no-man'3 land and therefore no frontiers of foreign States should mark her territory.

The territory which the Ukrainian people inhabit sińce the 10-th century etretches from the river San in the West to the river Donietz in the East, the river Pripet and Desna in the North to the river Dnister and the Black-Sea cost in the South. Ukrainians are Slavs, and are