Report about "Ukraine Fuehrer"
Grand Duke Vladimir Astonished by Extraordinary Story; Visit to Germany Purely Private Affair Paris, Dec. 17.
An emphatic denial that Herr Hitler planned to persuade him to boce the "Fuehrer of the Ukraine" was [never approve of plans of thi: ture, the statement emphasized.
Another statement issued on hi: behalf denied that hi sued last night by Grand Duke Vladimir, 21-year-old Holder of the Throne of the Czar of All the Russias.
"I was astonished to sce my name connected with the question of gotiations concerning the Ukr [declared the Grand D: ug on the statement, ich was made Mme. Genevieve Tabouis, political editor of L'CEuvre," who wrote that it meeting had been ai riged between the Grand Duke and Herr Hitler.
"It is true that I am going to Germany, the Grand Duke added, "but I will only stay for Christmas and ihe New Year with my sister at Amorbach."
Another statement many was in eny way political, stated that the Grand Duke had never been asked, either directly or indirectly, to lend his name to a political act aimed at dismemberment of the Russian Empire. He would never approve of plans of this nature, the statement emphasized.
In a report that the Grand Duke i week for Ber-nis stated that "in Berlin, it is said, Herr Hitler plans to persuade the Grand Duke to become the Fuehrer of the Ukraine."
She added that the number of White Russian officers in Berlin had creased in recent months, and had formed a kind of "Hitlerian Brigade," under General Bushupsky.
Mme. Tabouis also mentioned cur-stated that the Grand Duke had never been asked, either directly or indirectly, to lend his name to a political act aimed at dismemberment lof the Russian Erpw He would rent reports that a special German mission was to be sent to Chust, the capital of Ruthenia, and that it was ito be reinforced by German military propagandists and economic special-Reuter, Smallpox Virus for
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