April (undated), 1919

It is certainly no secret that some of the Ukrainians have no more love for the Poles than they have for the Russians. Today a committee, representing as they said the “former Crown land of Galicia in Austria,” “an artificially created administrative unit which conflicts with historic and national rights,” filed with us the following protest. It reads:

The representatives of the Ukrainian people protest against even the smallest portion of the Ukrainian territories of Cholm, Podlachia, and Wolhynia ever being added to the Kingdom of Poland which is in process of formation and regard any attempt in this direction as an outrage upon the living body of the Ukrainian people, as a violation of its historic rights and a mockery of the principle of self-determination of peoples. We declare we shall not abandon the struggle until the great Ukrainian nation has acquired the fullest rights upon the whole of its national territory.

I take it this means the death knell of many panaceas and compromise proposals which would be so satisfactory—if only they were practicable.