THERE ARE ABOUT 45 MILLION UKRAINIANS IN EUROPE (ANOTHER. MILLION IN AMERICA); 35 MILLION LIVE IN THE U.S.S.R., THE REST ARE IN POLAND (7 MILLION), RUMANIA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY.
According to " Mein Kam f," Hitler wants the Ukraine raw materials and foodstuffs), butdoes not intend to " Germanise " it.
The Nazis have always encouraged the " Independent Ukraine " movement.
TARTARS AND FINNS Ukrainians are not sharply distinguished from other Russians. There is a larger element of Tartar blood in the former, and of Finnish blood in the latter.
Russia has a " Maginot Line " for the defence of the Russian Ukraine.
Mgr. Szeptizki, Archbishop of Lwow, religious leader of Ukrainians of the Roman rite in Poland, has taken a leading part in the Ukrainian protests against Polish persecution.
The Pope, as reported last week, has sent Mgr. Cortesi, Apostolic Nuncio in Warsaw, to try and settle these differences.