Above all the Government will not tolerate any pogroms against the
Jewish population in the Ukraine, and will employ every available means
for the purpose of combating these abject criminals, dangerous to the
State, who are disgracing our nation in the eyes of all the civilized nations
of the world.
Borys Martos (1879-1977) was a Ukrainian political
leader, co-operative organizer, and educator.
From a Government Proclamation
To the People of the Ukraine
Riwne, April 12, 1919
To preserve the peace and to maintain public law and order - as the first
condition of a free life for all citizens of the Ukrainian Democratic
Republic - the Ukrainian Government will fight with all its power against
violations of public order, will strike the brigands and pogrom
instigators with the severest punishment and expose them publicly. Above
all the Government will not tolerate any pogroms against the Jewish
population in the Ukraine, and will employ every available means for the
purpose of combating these abject criminals, dangerous to the State, who
are disgracing our nation in the eyes of all the civilized nations of the
world.
The Government of the Ukrainian Democratic Republic is certain that the
Ukrainian people - who themselves have suffered national slavery through
many years and are conscious of the worth of national freedom and
therefore proclaimed before all things the national-personal autonomy of
the minorities in the Ukraine - will support the Ukrainian Government in
eliminating these evil-doers who are the scum of humanity.
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Arnold Margolin The Jewish Chronicle 16May1919 Interview on Petliura
The pogroms have been perpetrated by the people of the Black Hundred
and by provocateurs for the purpose of discrediting the Ukrainian
government.
An Interview with
Dr. Arnold Margolin in 1919
The Jewish Chronicle
London
May 16, 1919
Dr. Arnold Margolin, Head of the Ukrainian Diplomatic Mission in London,
Chairman of the "Jewish Territorial Society" in the Ukraine, was born in
Kiev (in 1877), attended Kiev University, and established himself in Kiev
as an attorney. Since 1903 he had been noted as a counsel for the
defense of the injured in pogrom excesses. Besides, he participated as a
counsel for the defense in many agrarian and political court trials. For
his revelations in the well-known Beilis case he was prosecuted by the
Minister of Justice of that time, Shcheglovitov, with the result that the
further practice of law was forbidden to him. He has taken part in the
Ukrainian Movement for many years, and has occupied himself with social
problems in the Ukraine. After the Revolution he was a member of the
Central Committee of the Socialist-Federalist Party, and for a time he
was Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs. In the spring of 1919 he went