The Ukrainian Weekly 1943, No.15

www.ukrweekly.com ^3 c¾ IH C fe¾ 2JL^ 0 d!· И r^f ic Ukrainian Daily РІК LL 4. 69. VOL. LL So. 69. Щг Шкгаітап Шеекір Dedicated to the needs and interest of young Americans of Ukrainian descent· No. 15 JERSEY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, APRIL 10, І943 VOL. XI UKRAINIAN CAUSE CENTURIES-OLD Postponed Kolessa Recital To Be Held \ · . In a sense, it is becoming a rather wearisome process. No sooner Sunday, April 18th does some declaration appear here or in Canada publicly espousing national freedom' for Ukraine, then with unvarying and monotonous regularity it| The American debut of Lubka Ko- Tickets for the affair are priced becomes subjected to vicious attacks as being pro-Nazi or even Nazi¯ ¡ lessa, internationally famous Ukrain¯ ¦ (tax included) at $2.75 for a box inspired. One would think that there is no such thing as freedom of ¦ian pianist, will be held Sunday eve¯ |seat; $2.20 for front orchestra seats; speech here, the way the professional Ukrainian-baiters gang up on anyone j ning, April 18, at 8.30 at Town Hall, | $1.65 for seats in 5th to 14th rows who ventures to raise bis voice in favor of freedom for Ukraine. {New York's music center, on West |in orchestra; $1.10 for rear and ex¯ Our domestic brand of Communists are especially guilty in this 43rd Street between Times Square |treme left section of orchestra, also respect. Basking m the reflected glory of the valiant fight the Russians, the| an<¯ S«t·1 avenue. |first six rows of balcony; 83 cents Ukrainians and the lesser peoples of the Soviet Union are waging against| Tne rec»tal had been originally for rear balcony; also some 55 cents the Hitler hordes, they have become very vainglorious and vociferous of scheduled for February 21st, but had seats. late, and, as always, psychopathically intolerant of anyone else's views |to ºe postponed due to circumstances Our young Ukrainian Americans and convictions, whom they immediately smear as unpatriotic or pro-Nazi, beyond the control of Miss Kolessa (are especially urged to attend the deliberately ignoring the well known fact that if anyone deserves to have ¡811(1 ~-e Columbia Concert Inc. man· j recital of this distinguished Ukrainian such an odium attached to them it is they, the Communists, for it was; agement in charge of her Town Hall | pianist, whom some European critics they who during the halcyon days of the Hitler-Stalin friendship played appearance. ¦have called "the female Paderewski." Hitler's game by obstructing in every possible way the war-preparedness Tickets purchased for February Her triumph will be a Ukrainian program of our country and the war efforts of our neighbor Canada. 21st will be honored on April 18th. American triumph. Of course, on the day when their lord and master in,Kremlin was at¯¡ tacked by Hitler, they quickly readjusted their party line to the new situa. ¦ Detl4)it \УОШЄП Collect $7,000 For Red CrOSS tion and overnight became American and Canadian patriots; not, mind і you, of the ordinary 100% variety, to which most of us mortals aspire, і but of the utra¯ultra lOOO% brand. Tae Ukrainian Unit of the Detroit ¦ their work in going from house to Today from the lofty heights of their new¯found patriotism the Com· Chapter of the American Red Cross house to raise the $7,000, appeared in munists hurl thunderbolts of calumny and invective against all those who |¯¯as secured $7,000 in a door-to-door last Sunday's (April 4) issue of The disagree with them, who cannot stomach their ideas and way of life, and I collection for the Red Cross. Detroit Free Press. who, if Americans, look to Washington for their guidance and leadership, ¦ The Ukrainian Unit consists of Those in the picture are: Mrs. | and, if Canadians, to Ottawa for> that, but not to Moscow as the Com· |three West Side and two East Side Marie _j¾cowron, Mrs. Mary Sena, munists have always done. groups. Mrs. Natalie Bylo, Mrs. Mary Proko~ In ordinary times, of course,' no sensible person would pay much at· \ . , ... powicz, Mrs. Catherine Chomiak, Mrs. tention to the Communist rantings and ravings, except to regard them I A picture of some of the umt mem· Mary Pidhayny, and Mrs. Mary Ka- ¿ as nuisances. But. by basking in the reflected glory of the Soviet people's ¡ -*-~> together with an account of ralash. ^ struggles against the Nazis, they have found among Americans and Can adians gullible souls who take them seriously, and who give credence to NEWARK SITCH DEDICATES what they say, as, for example, concerning Americans and Canadians of SERVICE FLAG U·NA BUYS $250,000 Ukrainian stock Who from their very childhood days have espoused the cause of a free and democratic Ukraine. The dedication of a Service Flag MORE WAR BONDS containing 140 stars was held last Windsor Star's Base Attack On Ukrainian Canadian Memorandum Sunday afternoon, April 4, by the Chomomorska Sitch Athletic Asso In accordance with the r·esolution Such at least appears to be the case with the "Windsor Daily Star," ciation of Newark, N. J. in the au¯ passed at its last Supreme Assembly of Windsor, Canada. Commenting upon the recent memorandum (see page annual meeting, held several weeks 2 for ito t^> of the UkraJ^ DominTon Шіогіит º*** buildinS at 18th ave" ¤ue 8 ree ago, the Ukrainian National Associa Government, the Star says: "The memorandum asking the Dominion Gov· *º ' tion purchased early this week $250,- ernment to support the idea of a Kingdom of Ukraine is exactly what the ¦ The 140 stars on the Service Flag 000 War Bonds of the April 1st issue. Nazi spies were trying to organize in Canada a few years ago. What represent members and adherents of At present the total investment of now appears as a spontaneous expression of opinion from Ukrainians in the association now in service. j the U.N.A. in U.S. Treasury and War Canada is nothing but the old German doctrine, which the Nazis have | The flag was blessed by Rev. J. Bonds amounts to $1,854,500; been urging the Ukrainians of Canada to place before Canadian Govern· Lazar of St. John's Ukrainian Cath¯ ment." olic Church. Speakers were: Newark —· UKRAINE RESISTS GERMAN One hardly knows what to say about such tripe—for certainly it de-¡ City Commissioner of Public Safety, TERRORISM serves no kinder designation. And such perversion of terms! Where in John B. Keenan; Judge William M. the memorandum, for instance, is there any mention at all that the Untermann; Charles Becker, repre· The Moscow correspondent of The Ukrainians want a Kingdom of Kiev? Nowheres, of course, for they have sen ting Commissioner Ralph Villam,, New York Times reported on April 4 always been democratically-minded. And where, may we ask, has the Star ¦also Rev. L Standret of the Ukrainian і ^at a ~-<*¦*~ll¦ which had just reached ravd tn e been all these years, that it can infer that the desire for a free Ukraine Presbyterian Church; John Romanl· f ¾ . ^^IfºJ*? pfrty organ' is but a Nazi invention and that it has appeared among Canadian Ukrain· tion,. Newark attorney, who also ;fºm Nazi-occupied Ukraine reveals xtent of Naz ians only.within recent years? Doesn't it realize that the movement for acted as master of ceremonies; and tne ^ J Г^"8Ш, an.d_tbe Ukrainian freedom is centuries-old? That in its cause millions-~yes, mil·'Stephen Shumeyko. The dedication counter-measures taken by the Ukra¯ lions^~nave died? That in three different periods of Ukrainian national j program was opened and closed by. mi.ans\f "**j* 8 correspondent in Uk- history it has found expression in form of an independent Ukrainian state. John Hrynyk, president of the Sitch ~*1^' ¤<*Уºº« the Dnieper nver, wrote namely: the Kingdom of Kiev (10¯13th centuries), the highly democratic association. і (Concluded on page 4) Ukrainian Kozak State (middle of 17th century), and finally the"Ukrainian — . — —¯—r· ---«~—- National Republic (1918-20)? What is more, surely the Windsor Star must have some idea of what ] papers as the "Svoboda," even as far back as the 1880's, to see whether Otto Tolischus wrote from Warsaw to the New York Times back in June, ¦ or not the Ukrainian immigrants then espoused the cause of a free and 1937: _ "Rich in tradition, history and culture of which the West in ¡ independent Ukraine ? Finally, why does not Star refer to such works on its pride knows little but which do not allow them to forget that they were ¦ Ukraine and Ukrainians as Hrushevsky's "History of Ukraine," Vernadsky's the first of the East Slavic people to attain Statehood back in the ninth j "Bohdan, Hetman of Ukraine," (both published by Yale University Press), and tenth centuries, the Ukrainians again look forward to the re¯creation і or "Poland, Key to Europe" by Raymond Leslie Buel (Knopf) or Doro· of their own State much as the Poles did before 1914— so much so that j shenko's "History of Ukraine" (Institute Press, Edmonton), all in English? they are already pursuing as far as possible the same policy and tactics¦ As a newspaper of any standing, that should be its first journalistic that brought Poles success, even to the extent of basing all their hopes ¦duty: to go out and get all the facts available on the subject, and only on the next war." ¡then comment on it. This, in the case of the Canadian Ukrainian memo· And now as to the Americans and Canadians of Ukrainian descent.

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