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 the effect that Skoropadsky would soon convene a Church Assembly of the Ukraine whose function it would be to confirm the appointment of Metropolitan Platon as the Independent Ukrainian Patriarch. It is also rumored that all of the Ukraine, that is the part which had formerly been Russia and Galicia, is now united. This meant that Platon would be Patriarch of Great and Little Ukraine, as distinguished from Patriarch Tikhon of all the Russias.

When I remarked that the Russian Patriarch would not permit this, I was laughed at and told that I did not know how matters stood. Why, Platon was among those who went to Germany to ask that German troops be sent here. In case Tikhon makes a fuss Platon will join the entire Ukrainian Church to Rome, and will