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The Ambassador in the Soviet Union ( Steinhardt ) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 28—10:48 a.m.]
826. The Soviet press today publishes two declarations of the National Assembly of Western Ukraine “elected” on October 22 (see my 785, October 23, 5 p.m.82).
The first declaration, after denouncing the policies of the former Polish Government in regard to the Western Ukrainians, announces the establishment of a Soviet regime in the territory of Western Ukraine with all power in the hands of the workers and peasantry as personified by the Soviet workers deputies. The second declaration requests the Supreme Soviet of the U. S. S. R. to admit Western Ukraine into the Soviet Union as a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Both declarations refer to the freeing of Western Ukraine by the Red Army from capitalist slavery.
The press announces that the first meeting of the Soviet of Western White Russia will be held today and unquestionably similar resolutions will be adopted.83
Although the announcement of the special session of the [Supreme Council of the] U. S. S. R. for October 31 published in the press yesterday gave no indication of the agenda of the meeting it is meeting presumably for the purpose of admitting Western White Russia and Western Ukraine into Soviet Union.