UKRAINE PLANS
PROPOSED COSSACK FEDERATION SAID TO HAVE GERMAN APPROVAL. SLOVAK SEMI-OFFICIAL REPORTS. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) PRAGUE. February 19. Semi-official Slovak sources reveal that General Popov, former chief of the Ukrainian Cossacks, and his aide-de-camp Sergie Federoy, recently discussed with German Government officials in Berlin the formation of an Ukrainian federation. It is understood that agreement was reached on four points. (1) All anti-Communist Cossacks to be gathered under unified control and steps taken for the eventual creation of a Cossack army. (2) The creation of an independent Cossack State, lo be named the "Federation 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 his return to Prague, Federov claimed that the Federation would make it possible for the German Reich to shelve for the time being plans to create a Greater Ukraine, which obviously at present could not be realised without a conflict with lhe Soviet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1939, Page 5
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182UKRAINE PLANS Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1939, Page 5
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