TEXT OF THE UKRAINE TREATY
Article IX.—The agreements made in this treaty constitute an indivisible whole.
Article X. For the interpretation of this treaty the German and Ukrainian text is authoritative for the relations between Germany and the Ukraine, the German, Hungarian, and Ukrainian text for the relations between Austria-Hungary and the Ukraine, the Bulgarian and Ukrainian text for the relations between Bulgaria and the Ukraine, the Turkish and Ukrainian text for the relations between Turkey and the Ukraine.
Final prescription. The present peace treaty will be ratified. The ratified documents shall be exchanged as soon as possible. So far as nothing therein prescribes otherwise, the peace treaty comes into force on its ratification. [Here follow the signatures.]
A supplementary treaty of twenty-eight articles was signed between Germany and the Ukraine on the same day. It deals with the resumption of consular relations, the revival of “treaties, arrangements and agreements which were in force between Germany and Russia before the war,” exchange of prisoners, compensation for damage, etc.
The Czech Declaration of 6 January
[The following declaration, adopted unanimously by the Congress of Czech deputies held in Prague on 6 January, was at first suppressed by the Austrian Censor, but has now been passed for publication. The Austrian Government, however, has not allowed any of the journals in which it appeared to leave Austria. We are indebted to the Czecho-Slovak National Council for the text of the declaration which it was able to secure despite the prohibition of the Austrian Government.]
In the fourth year of this terrible war, which has already cost the nations numberless sacrifices in blood and treasure, the first peace efforts have been inaugurated. We, the Czech members of the Austrian Reichsrat, which, through the verdicts of incompetent military tribunals, has been deprived of a number of its Slav deputies, and Czech deputies to the dissolved and as yet unsummoned Diet of the Kingdom of Bohemia, and to the equally unsummoned Diets of Moravia and Silesia, recognise the declarations of the Czech deputies in the Reichsrat, and deem it our duty emphatically to declare, in the name of the Czech nation and of its oppressed and forcibly-silenced Slovak branch of Hungary, our attitude towards the reconstruction of international relations.
When the Czech deputies of our regenerated nation expressed themselves, during the Franco-Prussian War, on the international European problems, they solemnly declared in their memorandum of 8 December, 1870, that all nations, great or small, have an equal right to self-determination, and their complete equality should always be respected. Only from the recognition of the equality of all nations and from mutual respect of the right of self-determination can come true equality and fraternity, a general peace and true humanity.”
We, deputies of the Czech nation, true even to-day to these principles of our ancestors, have therefore greeted with joy the fact that
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