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No. 47 NEW YORK and JERSEY CITY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1944 VOL. ХП WW
_ Wounded, Dies Next Killed in Action Dies of Wounds Macmillan to Publish Day On German Soil Chamberlin's "Ukraine Pictured below is Pvt. Walter Py- n і 1V ,. u . A veteran of the African inva rih, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Pyrin, j —a feUDUierged тіЮП Wounded during the Philippine sion, the Sicily invasion, and finally 64 Rufus street, Aneonia, Conn, andj - fighting with the Japs on October m f 0 Next of the historic D-Day, Staff Sergeant lu ^J £~i™?^£fL1i *"«*•* Member 6, Mac- 21st, Pvt. Michael Tydnyk, 26, son John Kushnir, a member of U.N.A. tobeWff ^ошГшГгге^ft at mlUan "Ю Publi8h * book by William of Mr. and Mrs. Tydnyk, Box 369, Branch 380, was killed in action on til Italv шсиггей m ac" Henry Chamberlin, noted foreign Leadwood, Mo., died on the follow German soil October 11, the War correspondent, writer and lecturer on ing day, October 22, according to a Department" recently informed his East European affairs, entitled "Uk report sent to the Weekly by Mr. wife, Мгв. Fannie Kushnir, and par raine—A Submerged Nation." Onufrey Kopach, secretary of U.N.A. ents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kushnir of Branch 225 in Desloge, Mo. to which 87 West 21st street, Bayonne. N. J. Chamberlin's book should prove an Pvt Tydnyk belonged. important contribution to knowledge in this country concerning Ukraine and her centuries-old struggle for national freedom and independence. The book will be on sale at book stores throughout the country; as well as at the Svoboda Bookstore, from which we urge our readers to obtain their copy ($1.75 per copy).
pital and is performing his duties as ward surgeon there now. To serve in the Veterans Administration Dr. Andreyko left his private practice in New York of 14 years standing. A graduate of Columbia Univer sity, Dr. Andreyko studied medieine PVT. WALTER PYRIH abroad. From Berlin he returned to this country. He began his medical DR. ANDREYKO GETS VETERANS work at the College of Physicians and HOSPITAL POST Surgeons in New York City, and was Dr. George Andreyko, well known associated with Polyclinic Hospital PVT. MICHAEL TYDNYK New York physician and chief medi and Manhattan Maternity Hospital. Pvt. Tydnyk was born in Flat cal examiner for the Ukrainian Na Dr. and Mrs. Andreyko are now River, Mo. and entered the army S/SGT. JOHN KUSHNIR tional Association, was recently ap residing in Beacon, N. Y. Their per September 21. 1941. In addition to Born April 1, 1920 in Bayonne, pointed to the medical staff at the manent residence is at Pine Bush, his parents he is survived by his S/Sgt. Kushnir enlisted in the army Castle Point, N. Y. veterans' hos Orange County, N. Y. siste - Mary. in 1938. He served overseas twenty * eight months. After he had taken part in the African and Sicilian cam EVENTUALLY? WHY NOT NOW! Killed in Leyte paigns he was transferred to Eng land, from where he took part in the It is surprising how many young people there are who though quite Fighting D-Day invasion of Europe. During active in Ukrainian American life have not as yet got around to joining the fighting in France he fell vic its principal support, the Ukrainian National Association. When ap Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Pohranychny. tim to malaria. After he- had re proached by a U.N.A. organizer or branch secretary they invariably stall 164 Fourth street. Elizebeth, N. J. covered from it. he rejoined his unit him off with some excuse on why* » have been notified by the War De at the front. During fighting his di vision received a special commenda they have not as yet joined the as partment of the death November 16 sociation, and also with some vague important matter of publications in of their son. Staff Sergeant William j tion for bravery from King George of England. Finally on enemy soil promise about joining it in the near English concerning Ukraine and Uk Pohranychny, 27 years old, twenty! rainians. There is today quite a six days after being wounded in Com he met with death. future. If only they stopped to think seriously they would realize that the number of them already, and more bat on Leyte in the Philippine Is-| In his last letter, dated October, in the offing. How many of them 7, S/Sgt. wrote he was getting sooner they join the cheaper for them lands, the Elizabeth Daily Journal re would there have been if the U.N.A. ported last Tuesday (clipping sent to weary of war and expressed his long will be the cost of the insurance that Weekly by Mrs. Roman Slobodian of ing to see his 26-month-old son whom membership in the association carries, had not published them or sponsored Elizabeth). ' he had never seen. for with advancing years there is a their publication? The answer is —very few. Then consider, too. the A member of U.N.A. Branch 142,' Surviving him besides his parents steady increase in the membership many Ukrainian institutions, ven S/Sgt. Pohranychny was to have are three brothers: William, who af dues. come home next month on furlough, ter, serving seven months in the army tures, and projects which owe a great As active young Ukrainian Ameri deal, sometimes their very existence, his first since he entered service. received an honorable discharge, Pvt. cans, such as yet non-members of Frank, in Australia, and Pvt. Dmytro to the moral and material aid of the He was attached to the infantry and the U.N.A. should realize that the took part in five major battles. In in this country. U.N.A. And finally consider the en ducted June 5. 1911 he trained for * foundation of most Ukrainian Ameri viable war record of the U.N.A., in six months at Camp Croft, S. C. can activities lies within that organ cluding its very high war bond pur and then was sent to Hawaii. From, Rescuer Wins Medal ization. After all, repetitious though chases, which have won praise from there he was transferred to Aus-| it may be, the fact remains that the Treasury Department officials. traiia and later to New Guinea. Theodore Smaydy, Ukrainian, ship- U.N.A. is the oldest (founded 1894) In addition to his parents, the sol fitter, first class, 425 New Point Rd., and largest (membership over 44,- Such sober reflection on the part dier is survived by a brother, S/Sgt. Elizabethport, N. J. recently won a 000; assets over $7V*> millions) or of any conscientious young Ukrain Raymond M. Pohranychny, in the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for ganization the Ukrainian Americans ian American on what the U.N.A. has Air Corps in France, and a sister, rescuing a pilot who had crashed in have. Moreover, the story of the accomplished and what it can ac Mrs. Charles J. Hoefling of Eliza to the sea, the Jersey Journal re U.N.A. is a story of constant, un complish in the future if more of beth. His fiancee, Miss Olga Seniw, ported last Tuesday (clipping sent surpassed and ever-increasing service our younger folks join it, coupled lives in New York. His mother Is to Weekly by Mr. Marcel Wagper of by the U.N.A. to its members in with a realization of the personal president of U.N.A. Branch 37. Jersey City). particular and to all the Ukrainian benefits flowing from membership in .-. «^ WANTEBi Mors- лшш i^e-rfca ®»ti article*--e»
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Mit і # 4 I • 3*=*= W J '. Wfpssjb, ,<Яв1<ігеп if necessary, but never sueh broken. untU alter Attila's death in fki0ш tru*•**e» fr^An/friend.i '» • 4§gi Thereafter, the Huns, because »f *nte*nal. diiisensions and uprising A *Snrfey of Ulfcl! of tributary tribes, disappeared as a (,K;tliKB.4INE—CROSSROADS OF unit and of their actual kinsfolk NATIONS folk many reappear later under new II ім#«мгт--foist. ilTonnsf < tt Close relationship between Scythians names. and Greeks і • The Bolgars * І*е#ірІе J The close relationships of the After the fall of the Huns a new .Greeks and the Scythians gradually Tribe appeared from the east—the W tended to modify the barbarism of Bolgars, who were of Turkish origin. tne ~4«, latter, especially under the in- і Some of them made their way north Editor's Note ojs became wrjr wealthy and pow- fluence of Щ^ад сіиезд о* erful ward to the Finnish country and TJECENTLY we were talking with - . . . , tijj Olbia and Chersonesus. petling around the Volga and Kana a younger generation America* It is f^a*. these early2 toadeWi BxBavatiM|e h9ve covered many Rivers founded a kingdom — while of Ukrainian descent, hailing from Р*Ї^ЙШedge as to what kind**ШШМШГ&s of peoples and j:Л. T &. Аиlowin Аg иилthat^h e |otherouier8s 0oIf tnthee Bssam^ee racracee settlesettledd a att X«1U*b^Ukra^ the Dniester and the ^cLta Jwhom he\Zd SSJSSK very much to have some acquaint r .^ ^ v.... влтл **««*mjm**are indebted to the narrativeT^!^ s of^Scytjiians; , These monuments of Greek! and.and.., fnundA.foundedd thth*e ^^«presenf t Bulgaria«„i^« . ance with Ukrainian history. Being \ civilization which have been exp Hare they d many Slav, tribes "busy man he has »ot the "PgEgft ЖїЙ£ЕИ W&*«**» in ««them. Окгайе ar*1n and were kly absorbed^ by them. to Ш Ї Q them such knowledge, te^estes » **» »¥«,»f'«" * form of funeral pilters. has reliefs, tffiA constant t readereader of The ^^^Jba^^^o^W^.^^^ ЩЩ^І% art. The Avars Weekly, he thought it, would be a from hearsay accounts, for he ac- The decline of thft ^yiraans In the early part of the 6th cen- , good idea far the Weekly, to* print tually traveled1 himself up the Dnie-j c^ y . c. the tnrj», in place of the Bolgars there . a» elementary history of Ukraine for About the 4tb tur B t "readers Шое hi* children of Per to its famed"j^rohi" j^P1**) i,Seythians,,beeomiBg weakened by in- appeared another eastern tribe known "J5 Ш theivoveriaiid^uhrougho^ south- ternal warfarer ^^ dispiaCed by a as the Avar* (the Ovry—of the grammar and high school age. era Ukraine. early chroniclers) of Mongolian From personal knowledge we know .stronger kindred tribe known as the origin, who maintained themselves in that there are other young parents Scythian .Customs Sarmatians*' who previously had a despotic manner until the close of і dwelt north of the Scythians. who would like to see such * simple : Ab0Bt the 8th« century, at which* time a history of Ukraine appear oav these ^1*^° 'ЖЙЇЇЬ "wJS5;- *• «*•* of a» b«h of combination of German and Slav pages for their-children to readi Ac guished the agweUtumJ Scythians. Sarmatiane were sue- tribes thoroughly wiped them out. cordingly we have prepared the fol not for food but foe traded from the і the Alans* These latter tribes- were . The Khazars lowing young people's-survey of Uk inland nomadic .tribe* "who neither but branches of the same Iranic rainian history. plow nor sow." To*; щаіп-tribes of Prior to that, however, about 700 Ue S^hi^ IWed »t Та.ш* ^ D*. aaotber horde of the-same "C «™J-""»"» 5Г2ГЇН V™iitbe Soythians belonged. Of fair hair Mongolian stock appeared—the Kha ANCIENT DWELLERS OF ""STSS °? KI*%S&L8^ and dress similar to that of Per- zars. UKRAINE SS^S«SL«? \*ф&т ** bowe Narrows The KhazarsxfoundedVa large king The very first traces of mankind dom extending from the Caucasus to m. Ukraine appear at the close of ^"USr-M^iSftu-ffSfS of the, Dnieper,- Thi* state* during its the geological, period known, as theI ithese'earln depictinyg settlersthe.life. and manners aw^uu existence, was of great service to the last and fourth. Glacial Age, wbich, The naUve ^s ^ It is important to- realize, how- u t b - eve*, КЩНйЗчіїйжШш to put it in ™^-1 ^ ^n ^ his nrst enemy.ш time of war, dra^
AsietH to. 15,000 years ago. event. At the close of the battle IJL ^ it auhiueation. The direct I ^^ >:• hordes. It declined ш These traces, as well as subse- the Scythian would bring the ве*- EiSSSSSWi^ ! quent periods, are very few and' ered heads of all enemies he had nZT"t оІ^Нпч of the rwasus і and'finally m the 10th century was y CBIfUV UWWUU9 ux u 1 faint in Eastern Europe, for, unlike jkiUed tefet* hie ckaef tain and there- { "** -^« « • j shattered by the Ukrainian - Rus the prehistoric man* of* Western Eu-jUDon receive his share of booty in; „ The Сотіnu; of the Goths prince Sviatoslav. rope who dwelt generally in dry and proportion to the number of heads he I gegmning with the second cen- rocky caves, the men of Eastern Eu-1 presented. The one who killed the|tuuyi after Christ, Germanic tribes Other. luvading. Tribes rope as a rule dwelt and died in greatest number of enemies was | known as the Goths using, the great The Khazars were followed by the the open spaces, and- aaa result there- feted, and henceforth, at all national riveri roads of Ukraine,.gradually' Ugriaas, who after seme migrations of.his bones and other remains soon [feasts was entitled to a. double por-? overran all o£ that territory oc- settled on the lands of present Hun- deappeared entirely. tion of wine. Similarly to the custom {cupied by the Sarmatia»e. In the ga|y.. They, in turn were followed Up to 500 B. G. our knowledge of .of the Indians of America, he scalped! fourthj century A. J)i»» under the byrother Turkish-rTartar hordes—the the ancient prehistoric (modern ten- his enemies leadership of King Hermanric they PeehenegSy Torks, Berendians, Po- dency is to call it pre-literary) man j Every Scythian, tribe had as its created a conglomerate: empire com lovs, and last of all (beginning with of Ukraine is based-entirely on Ar-|image of the god of war a sword posed of various races. They were 13th century) the Tartars and Kal cheology. As the story of the an- j driven into the earth, over which they of a lower cultural level than that mucks. cient prehistoric man of Ukraine is, j would pour the Wood of their ene- of their predecessors, and while in Thus we see, that for an entire with a few notable exceptions, sim-! miee captured in battle. They per- power their main contribution to the period of 1000 years Ukraine, be ilar to that of the prehistoric man • formed terrible burial rites in. honor growth of Eastern Europe was thecaus e of its border position, was of Western Europe (with which most 0f their kings, and observed the first j development of trade with the north the stage of an unceasing conflict high school students are familiar)' anniversary of their king.'s death by •, and north-west. between the inflowing Asiatic tribes we shall skip it. stranding fifty of their best slaves,1; and its inhabitants.* The Pontian uns vhorses and encircling the royal burial} "* steppes of southern Ukraine were Herodotus' References to Ukraine mound with these dead horsemen.! Tbe Gothic empire did not last the natural military road to the West lon f r v About 500 В. C. the first literary This last custom,, although strange f.*PW! S» ° about the latter part and Southwest, where the rich, civil references of the land of Ukraine an* is not an invention of the mind, for;of the 4th century the Goths were ized lands in the Mediterranean region pear: those of Herodotus, the famous along the Dnieper River have been-'fhive? westward by the great Hun lay invitingly open. And through Greek writer. * found numerous burial mounds con- invasions. these steppes these hordes poured un taming all as described by Herodo-j The Huns originated in among the ceasingly and irresistibly for over a Prior to this time, however, we tus. noma* tribes of Mongolia who finding thousand years* bringing with them know that two great Asiatic-Eu One must not suppose, however, the soil too poor gradually moved wars, bloodshed, and miser.'. ropean states of the Aryan-Iranic that 'these Scythians were entirely; westward. It was against them tfiat (Next week—The Slavs) race established themselves in suc savage, for they had many redeem- the ancient Chinese emperors con cession on the shores of the Black ing features. One of the more not- j structed the Great Wall of China, Sea: (1.) the Cimmerian-Thracian able was the high value which theyl Using the broad Pontiaa steppes Communique (10th-8th century В: C.) and the placed upon true friendship. jof southern Ukraine as a military Scythian-Thracian (8th-3rd century In those warlike days it was indeed j road they advanced in great hordes, News from the battleline to the B. G.) Of the former little is known. a great asset for a Scythian to have; conquering and absorbing tribe after west indicates that Japan is rapidly Homer, in his Illiad as well as in a true friend. Having found a trust- j tribe. In the 2nd century they were running out of oil, steel, planes, the Oddysey mentions the land of worthy and courageous man, he per- j already past the Caspian Sea, About ships and South Pacific Islands. the Cimmerians as being very co^d. formed a "brotherly pact" ritual,; 370 A. D. they crushed the Iranian Of the Scythians, however, we are which consisted of both of them let- j Alans living between the Don and the A. as in Alas ting some of their blood into a cup Sea of Azov. Joined by the Roxalans more informed, thanks to the Greeks, After years of research a scientist who, being attracted to Southern containing wine, dipping their weap- they then marched on the Goths and Ukraine by its natural riches, estab-jons into thi8 mix*ure, and finally gradually overwhelmed them. And discovered a chemical that, when lished colonies along the southern I drinking, it down together. Hence- as a result of these conquests the mixed with gasoline, produces per shores of Ukraine as earlv as 700lforth 1пеУ regarded themselves-as Goths had to move westward and fectly palatable bourbon whiskey. В. C. being closer than even natural bro- later founded the kingdom of the The poor fellow only has an A card and doesn't know what to do next. I thers. Visigoths in Spain and of the Ostro- Having settled there the Greek Many very interesting stories of goths in Italy, colonies, taking advantage of the! these friendship pacts were gathered' Contemporary historians describe King for a Day wonderfully rich soil, became one of by Lucien. a Greek writer. One such the Huns as of hideous physiognomy, A soldier in the air transport com the main sources of the supply of story tells of a certain Scythian in huge heads, deep sunken eyes, broad mand brings up a point which may wheat for the Grecian Empire. And whose hut lived his "brother." One shoulders, bow-legs like sticks, and have been a sizeable factor in "get in addition to agriculture they also day, when his hut caught on fire, his most repulsive habits. They lived, ting out the soldier vote." "Thank developed trade relations with their first task was- to save his "brother," conversed and even slept on horse- you for the ballot application," he "barbarian" neighbors. In exchange leaving his wife and children to save back, and never changed their wrote. "It. came as a welcome and for the Scythian grains, furs and themselves. After the fire, upon be- clothes until they dropped off. very flattering surprise. This is the fish) the Greek gave textiles, wine, ing told that his child had burned to' Under the leadership of their fa- first time I have been invited to ex oUs, and objects of luxury. As a j death he merely shrugged his shoul- mous chiftain Attila, the Huns over- press an opinion on anything in six result of this trade the Greek col-,ders and said, "I can have more ran Europe, and their hold was not teen months." No. 47 ^UKRAINIAN-WEEKLY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1944 її і •»• — -m"" ' д""1 '"-" .'•"'• • ' ..•••. A STORM АТФЕА UKRAINE'S RELATIONS, WIT» 9WEBEN By HONORE EWACH ЦТОНМ. Ew since men have been) Meanwhile, inside the ship every- і .і •• 11. і і 11 going to sea* storm has., been, thinшуашg і waл^s in мa turmoilЯЗ&Ш^шШ,. Wate r wa!S s IT is not without a good Peaee^wk^ laad- such Ukrainian-, provinces as their* mosfc feared natu*ab enemy; room andMLS?weW^nTnSn I the national colors of Ukraine Galicia and Volyn, in addition to an enemy which destroys whiie> hold Я Ш^^Шв^ЖWe**** аго alitor** blue *ш White"*«theri** Somber of ing its victims зреД bound, as rov a their shoes and otheV belongings ritb yelfow. ВоШ *f them саше from, the same yea* Sweden and Branden- drama, by the fascinating manner the in which it wreaks its havoc. wMch noT were floatme like ducks < **** *>*™er ****'• Greece.' In burg joined the anti-Polish coalition. - Last September the eastern sea п 11 a lightning had by now ImstHy secured their ? ?і ^^^^ board, experienced the tail e»d ofi**»« ЧУ **"»» «4»wjf owurra шсн .. • - lw*ei*»H і-Ьт-лчсгЬ Poland)> occupying ^ЬштісГе, which caused, millions J gear, were i* tlieir buBtaf-^Mctf is ** ****** her mechanise from-, march through Greece. The main trade route be* j Cracow and Warsaw. He was joined of dollars of destruction^ killed I the best place to be in rough *тлАлп огм3 r„^ «n in nof+ Sweden Greece ш rt by the Swedes at Warsaw. Mean- many, and ift general frightened all; j weather or any-weather for that •*"** *** ^ ** while the Ukrainian Kozatar under Ї was at sea at the time, returning'fntatter. [through Ukraine. It was the Dnieper river and during the 9th century it Zhdanov і ch occupied-Brest and 2a- home-from the United Kingdom ttf Eating was all but impossible, for 4 mostie. But in the nick of time Po the Utensils would be swept off roe was largely controlled by Swedish convoy when the hurricane warnings warriors. They were known as Varan- j land received the-necessary military were received. Although, however, stoves and" dishes- off the tables. So gians, that i* warriors in Swedish: assistance when Denmark* attacked everything, was- in readiness we were for two and a half days we had to І^сотчтТ^ and Austria sen* military totally uap repaired for the sudden 32 m onslaught in which the storm de wTcbeT **? a verV £or ЯРalon g *the* - «"*route, Ше «Kiev , werweree Шgnf * ** to the hard-pressed Poles; The scended upon us. In a few minutes Most' of the time was- spent in bed, risonedby the Varangians*, Some of) Tartars also came to Poland's, rescue, everything was blotted, from- view trying to sleep by wedging- oneself the Varangians served in the Greek J Finally the death, of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnitsky, in August, 1657, dealt by the clouds and rai* white the] between the _mettrese •»*«* Ш^Ш•«*%, *&ШШШ head and thus wind^ which had been moderate, ШШШ^^ШМММЩЩ^^Ш was eiected quickly increased in .tempo to a fear from being thrownn to the deck. I!^ А u Ukrainized hetman on October 26, 1657, he im- A storm of any length taxes ^raimxea.ni2ed AmonШоп&г suc3UCn UKraimzeaj ful velocity. у Varangianswere roeш^ kings of (mediately signed-a new military al- The ship- began to roll so badly man's strength immeasureably for his Ha nee with Sweden.- King Charles X body must unconsciously flex itself Kiev. It seems that even King Dior that a chair couldn't' stand up for (Ihgvar) was still a Varangian when of Sweden undertook to help Ukraine того than a few moments, before it every time the ship rolls in order to romain. upright, therefore it was wttti j he married a local princess-Princess by planning to annex from Poland overturned. Books, dishes and every Olha. But their son, later known as all the Ukrainian territories up to the thing moveable were; swept to the much relief that we welcomed the border of Slovakia. But this new al storm's end. Soon, bit by bit every- King Svyetoslav the Brave (957-972), deck from where they had. been ab0 d Wp 81 8 nor was thoroughly Ukrainized. In- every liance with Sweden had no results, •шь^" or iyto^ A & ЗЗБЗифРЗВ ^ '.? Г "™ !^ {respect he. looked and behaved just as Sweden soon found' herself hard- logged* that is, recorded, and it pressed by Denmark. A renewal of ^"^ * thinmalitgy ofan thd e thpaste stor, fomr .becamsuch' ies a like one of the local Ukrainian war should be borne in mind that*. a: ship! riors. a military alliance with Turkey, how cannot roll' much more without cap sailor's life—come what may it is ever, brought some results for Uk- soon a thing of the past. Very close relations between Sweden sizing. So we were forced, te change | and Ukraine lasted through roe raine^ Hetman Vyhovsky signed a course, heading into the storm. Still another day passed before reign of King Volodimir the Great treaty of friendship with Poland in Most sailors look at a ship as a the storm-scattered convoy was (979-1015) and his son, Yaroslav the 1658, and next year in June dealt thing alive. During roe storm our (gathered- together once agaim- That Wise (1019-105*). Both Volodimir the Russians a crushing defeat at ship looked especially alive.. One I evening our ship had, what we jok- the Great and Yaroslav the Wise had Konotop. At Konotop the Tartars, moment her bows would be buried Jingly referred to as a "Friendship some Varangians in their armies. as Turkey's subjeetts and allies, fought deep under the massive weight of | Test.". At 1 :Q0 A. M. our ship's Yaroslav was married to a Swedish against the Russians, too. That was swirling green water, and she" would* whistle accidentally began to Wow, daughter of King Olaf. the practical result of Vyhovsky's treaty with Turkey. shudder under the impact, her stride}and when a ship blows its whistle mf^ Durin_ . g th.. e second. hal. 7ГТf of. th.. e -11th momentarily checked, but the next] convoy, it signifies that it has been Mazeppa's Treaty they would rise majestically high in-[torpedoed So it wasn't more than century the trade route along the to the air, while she trembled through- І 60 seconds later that we found our- Dnieper was severed by a strong The Swedes and Ukrainians met oUt her great length as the seas j selves completely deserted; The nomadic horde of the marauding again as allies in the autumn of 1708. hissed as if reluctant to release her. | other ships had fled frantically Cumans (Polovtsians). It Was then That year Hetman Mazeppa concluded Time and time again it seemed she) in all directions with all possible that the relations between Ukraine a military alliance with King Charles would never rise again, times when {speed, their crews thinking we were and Sweden began to deteriorate ХП of Sweoen. The letter's armies her main deck was completely awash, | being- attacked by submarines. It Subsequently the expansion of .the ploughed victoriously through Den submerged beneath angry foaming j took* us more than two hours to con- tsardom of Muscovy and princedom mark, northern. Germany, Prussia, seas, but each time she shook herself - vince them that it was an accident 1 of Lithuania cut off for good the and Poland, and entered Ukraine free from the waves' clutches. At і and that we were not actually under.the trading routes between Ukraine from the north. By his treaty and Sweden with Mazeppa the Swedish monarch short intervals her propeller would j attack. Centuries elapsed before the Uk bound himself to detach Ukraine be thrown out of the water and its І It wasn't much later before we rainians and Swedes met again. That from Russia and help to set it up blades would thrash frantically in were threading our way up the nar- was in 1598—on opposing sides in as an independent princedom, with the ahr while the ship would vibrate! rows entering New York harbor; The the dynastic war of Poland and Mazeppa as its ruler. terribly as if in wrath at having its. past receded into the dim back- Sweden. The Polish King Sigismund When the Swedes and Ukrainians purpose defeated. j ground as the promising future the Third, a Swedish prince* at the met in 1708 both were surprised to w^. яіі- ті мг 4. i. loomed ahead. We were home once 1- • head of a small Polish army and find that the rich yellow and sky Fury Thrilling to Watch again ю enjey оог8еІУев, te at_ some detachments of Ukrainian Ko- blue were the national colors of The fury of the storm was thrill-j tempt to forget the chaos in which zaks landed in Sweden to claim also both Sweden and Ukraine. Even the ing to watch. Waves, mountainous in і the world is embroiled today'*, home the throne of the Swedish kings. The blue uniforms trimmed with golden size and turbulent in their action, j to see our loved ones in the greatest Swedes, however, experienced no bands of the Swedes and Mazeppa's covered with white foam, lashed at j country on this earth, before once difficulty in driving him back to Po Kozaks were similar. They did not each other, while the deep roar of. again going back to brave the dan- land. remember that some seven hundred the water could be heard above the ger of the sea in addition'to enemy years before the Swedes, and the high shrieking of the wind. Seeming-1 submarines, hoping that in roe not Khmelnitsky's Treaty with Sweden Ukrainians were buying the rich blue ly all the forces that, nature could [too distant future, we will be home stuffs embroidered with yellow from muster at her command were intent Another half a century elapsed be to stay. Byzantium. Since then the bhie and upon destroying these intruders who fore the Swedes and Ukrainians met BASIL DBMYDCHUK, again. In 1654 Hetman Bohdan yellow colors continued to be conti had trespassed on her domain. Member of U.N.A. Br. 361. •, .' ,'м , лч. .,'•'• •" "—'•' • '," у:1".:,, ,m Khmelnitsky signed a military al nued to be popular in both Ukraine liance with Queen Christina of Swed and Sweden. Today the favorite PavJe Pri*?A<* Л їда stabilize the franc so that there will en. The following lear Sweden gained colors of the Ukrainians continue to Says Г ЛГІЬ ГІЛЮТ .TMClte no inflation. Though the franc a new monarch, King Charles X, as be sky blue and golden. They pre is worth two cents to us, it is not the lively Queen Christina had ab dominate especially in their church Very High worth that much to the French. dicated in 1654. Then Hetman Boh decorations. dan negotiated another military al It is interesting to note that al Prices in Paris are very high for 'We can buy articles that are not liance between Ukraine and Sweden. though Charles XII lost the crucial the GTLS "who want to buy any І rationed. We are not allowed to As a result, King Charles X attacked battle of Poltava—where both his thing, writes Pvt. Ambrose Кок fromIeat m the French restaurants be- саш there ,s not Poland from the west and north and and Mazeppa's forces were greatly the French capital to his parents, І » enough food for Hetman Bohdan from the east. Boh the outnumbered by the Russians—he Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lulka of Sykes- French. We have very good dan defeated the Polish army in nevertheless continued to regard him vilie Pa. food Our authorities have taken Galicia, near Horodok. By autumn of self bound, until his very death in A' Pennsylvania State Collegejover a restaurant for the American that year both Warsaw and Cracow 1718, to help set up Ukraine as an graduate, a member of U.N.A. Br.' soldiers. French cooks prepare Amer- jwere occupied by the Swedes. Then independent state. food із to us 401, of which his father, Mr. Lulka, ^ *** * **™* u £ a great Polish national uprising fol Fren is secretary. Pvt Кок is at present I eh waitresses. The French cooks ^ The gwedes ha/to ^re.] are attached to the Chemical War Serv-| very good. We soldiers like this U the 9ummer of 1656 however I ice. Concerning Paris he writes: iyery much because this is the first th m QCCUfAed Warsaw. It was! we do not hav to wa8h the "Paris is a beautiful city, but the,*"*? ,u \ . „ then that Russia joined the war Germans have left the people in it dishes or peel the potatoes. How- again8t Sweden. Russia's entrance without much food. I have heard;ever, most of the potatoes are de-, mto war Qn Poland-8 side greatly en_! many people say they are glad we Г nydrateO. raged Hetman Bohdan. He regarded are here because now they can get] In another V-Mail letter to his such a step by Russia as a betrayal. much more to eat. They have had; parents, Pvt. Кок mentions that he It meant that Russia had broken her ] no coal or heat for several years.! speaks French "as well as a dog Pereyaslav Treaty of 1654 by which They may get some this winter, walks on two legs." While he was in the Russian tsar promised military] though that is hard to tell. England, he writes, he witnessed help to Ukraine in its fight against і "Prices in Paris, are very high for j some of the devastation caused by (Poland. In September of 1656 Uk- us if we want to buy anything. Our j German flying bombs, which- for- raine signed a military alliance with j authorities pay us one franc for two-j tUnately for him, he says, missed'Transylvania. Transylvania was to cents. Our authorities are trying to'him. ihelp Ukraine to detach from Po-|
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UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1944 No. 4T
IJKRAINICA IN AMERICA !A Ukrainian "Father of Perspective Painting" і By SIMON DEMYDCHUK 4 NOTHER Ukrainian whose services A. S-v, in his article in the Ency (6) were of value to the development clopaedia dictionary of Brockhaus | (Continued) of arts in Ukraine and Russia was and Efron, says that Zaryanko's 1 American Interest In Ukrainian acter of friends (Polevoy: ffistory of ^^^ Constantine Zaryanko. The portraits are known for powerful f literature the Russian Empire; Gnorowski: j Great Russian Encyclopaedia calls plasticity, splendid rendering of il Insurrection of Poland in 1830-1831)." J him the father of the "perspective lumination, careful workmanship of I Under the above guidance he pro-.painting" in Russia, detail, even in accessories, and exact AS long as the Ukrainian language ceede to say [page 337]: ч Zaryanko was bom, in 1818, of rendition of the sitter's features. The writer thinks, however, that the and literature were allowed to "Such was the existence and such poor parents in the province of Mo- !П painter caught better the outward flourish on their native soil and was the spirit of the Cossacks... У^, which lies on the northern side of the personality rather than among their own people they found The Saporogue Cossacks were the «*Єе of Jfr ethnographic territory, A еаг1 a e the inward characteristics and the •a suitable appraisal abroad in Eu nucleus of the Cossacks of the Uk- > « У ? be was sent to study expression. **? , c і.- * J ^ a gymnasium in St. Petersburg, rope and from there the reviews Modern critics were less satisfied trickled into America. A sample of nine. Their Sicza, or chief command- ^ ^^ й Rus8ia then There he ory, transferred for a time to the cU^yed a marked talent for draw- with Zaryanko. The most condemn such interest is found in 'The Ameri- atory of them, Alexandre Renois, a banks of the Dnieper, was first es- mg ^ there the Russian artist Av- -can Eclectic of Selections from the tablished in the island of Hortica ronin introduced him to the noted PW himself, wrote of Zaryanko Periodical Literature of all Foreign and from this nest the grodzisko were Russian painter Venetsyanov, who m J* "RHsa.iaI! ^}°°l J°f Pal^tin»"; Countries/' New York and Boston, gradually multiplied along the river, soon became Zaryanko's teacher. A good techmcian but unfortun- a Vol I, January, March and May, 1841. . . . The Swiss historian, Mueller, Through Vetsyanov's influence Za,- g* _ »**<*n "bellow **** **£ tui ed e It reprints (page 332 and following) thus sneaks of the Zanoroeues about ryanko entered the Academy of Arte.' 5 £r «**& P^ents of his tnus speaKS oi cne ^aporogues aoom J p^mhunr for the devekm- master [Venetyanov] into a rigid, from The Foreign Quarterly Review in et or tne veI the middle of the last centur y [mean- men Ш>t of f f •™Ш * °J °P; I lifeless formula His nortraits ага & complete review of the "Songs of ;«„ «K™^ +ьо «ло^ ітклі" which Ukrainians performed. J"P іогтша. ms portraiis are mg about the year 1750] ... a con8iderable service, faultlessly drawn and methodically Ukraine, published by Maxymowicz, „ ' .. . . painted; by dryness and lack of Ukrainian Character Described Venetsyanov was a decided real-,l«i * 2L ^_-»_J _* __,_—J At Moscow, 1834." i.^'T^T; ™ ... « м • і animatio x n they remind one of colored Here we leave out the praise of ist* ,' devote. Y. d ,. to „.depictinF V. ьg . incident_. . sJ Iphotograph hoto ph8s / Its unknown author pays such a .. „ . _. 5 from daily lifer . His honest art had „, . glowing tribute not only to the Mueller as well as of Polevoy, as a decided influence on his pupils, To ^У of a Painter that his was a sna poetical ability of the Ukrainian peo quoted by the author and return to among whom Zaryanko occupied a llow mind hardly puts the finger 3>le but also to their past that one b*8 statement on the inhabitants of prominent place on something tangible. There must have been something awry in Zaryan- cannot refrain from quoting almost; Ukraine: Zaryanko branched off mto two ^ nature ^ £&** that •entirely his introductory remarks "The Ukrainian is slow, taciturn, Erections At first he devoted him- strild effect of hoto „ about the inhabitants of Ukraine difficult of speech, does not bow him- self to the so-called perspective a modern critic auch a genou, was and their past:— self as does the native of great Rus- painting, which is that kind of paint- ft реЛйра due t0 the fact that Za. sia does not he mp 8 "During the period of the middle - Promise much, but. is '"g ™ *P'f' ' a^ ^!°" °„ ryanko was more of naturalist, who гс ю e a ages, when the west and the south shrewd and intelligent and respects ? "' £"|™ " ™ '™f "£L-YL considered nature as a perfect pro of Europe were studded with Gothic the word both given and received," *« forth the beauty о theepth duct of its kind, which the artist- П castles and when Rhodes and Malta the author wntes. and then con- а^ДщЗ!' о' the Nikolsky "апа ^гі^ were the.asylums of the military re- tmues: Sobor in St. Petersburg, for which ligious orders—the scanty wrecks of "Would you gain the friendship of he was made an Academician. . ~ sucn was,tne case ^еп Zaryan -the great armies that had marched the Ukrainian, be not pressing, for Zaryanko then went to Moscow ko's was another great talent spoiled into Palestine- it was not so much he is suspicious; but rather take where for awhile he painted religious by a wrong outlook on life. In spite as surmised that behind the rampart part in his Cossack-like existence, і pictures and where he also became a of his defects, however, he per formed an undeniable service for the which Poland opposed to the bar- for he is proud of the events of professor of painting at the Moscow development of the realization by his "barians of the East, there existed a past times... You will be admitted School of Sculpture and Painting, people of the beauties that lie in peo powerful confederacy of warlike men, I into the sanctuary of his joys and.**e was soon drawn baj* to St. ple and the views of the cities and Є t WnS ab Ut them> who, occupied incessantly in the pur- sorrows, you will at length hear his vjt^ ь[^рі°^п яУі^ to"* portrait І ° ° er. suit of arms, lived only by war and song of the steppe, and be astonished pamtjng por his portrait of F Tol- ЯЕ-Я for war. By strange fatality these at the cheerfulness of his disposi- stoy he was made (1850) a professor men, though they struggled in a tion." at tne Academy. In 1856 he went to USE V-MAIL sacred cause—in the defense of their Coming to the review of the songs Moscow, but soon returned to St. religion, nationality and the homes — the author informs the readers of Petersburg. He died in 1870. a res- With greater number of gained ultimately, however, only a his time that: pected painter of portraits, ! troops now overseas, the Army name of opprobrium, that of Cossacks. "Thes««Thn^e songалпсхs« stil«ніlі resounГ^ИШdІ пo»n Ьл.botьh Those who have seen his pictures • Postal Service wants friends of equivalent in the opinion of civil- " Dnieper, though ages have noticed that ^ryanko treated bank8 of the в servicemen to use V-Mail in- ІТРН ПАНЛПЧ to that of robbers and " *_" •, ^ * ~". - і І both the landscape and the sitter I stead of ordinary mail. V-Mail izea nauons, to inai oi roDoers ana|must have ^ц^ away before any,:i n the same manner. A landscape— savages. Notwithstanding their hee
Ш.Ї:У<,£ t No. 47 ЯTTTTIAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1944 !* ЗГ ' Witshingtoniah* Hear All-American Dinner Saw Results of Scorched Earth in Ukraine PrythitJtevytch at Syracuse Ukrainian In a recent letter from Africa to 'likewise I asked him if he had seen his brother, Michael, in the Navy, many men there. He said no, since Roman Prydatkevytch delighted -Home * / the young Ukrainian American sol most of them are in the army ex the hearts of a highly appreciative dier, Jim, whose descriptions of GX cept the old, crippled or young kids. audience when he gave a recital at The 26th Annual Ail-American Din life in Africa have appeared on these He said most of the equipment the the Y.W.CJL in Washington on Fri ner of the Americanization League pages several times, tells this time Russians got is GI [American], ex day, November 17. Playing exclusive ot Syracuse, New York was held re about what another American cept for the uniforms. I inquired ly for members of the Ukrainian club, cently at the Ukrainian National G.I. had seen in Ukraine when he how did he like the native dress out the noted composer and violinist Home, 1317 West Fayette Street, un was stationed there. As before both there. He said the native costume is showed himself as an artist endowed der the supervision of the Catholic brothers prefer to remain anonymous, very pretty but a lot of people are with the rare technique of perfect Daughters of the church assisted by I although "their identity is well "known turning to the western dress such toning and emotional content fully members of the Blessed Virgin Sodal- to the Weekly editor. Dated Novem- as in the States. I guess this is expressed, as well as with practical ity, who helped with the serving. All ber 1, Jim's letter to his brother because since, as he said, it is almost everyday wisdom. waitresses presented a very pleasant Michael reads: •* an impossibility to buy clothing there, A singer, he observed, makes his sight in their Ukrainian costumes. "Today I met a GI from the Air so they probably have to wear what song understood by clarity of voice The invocation was delivered by the Corps who just got back from Uk ever they can get, and words; a musician, by beauty of Very Rev. Michael Kuziw, pastor of raine. For the past four months he "He showed me the pretty good tone and presentation. With this the St. John the Baptist Ukrainian had been stationed between Myrho- Russian camera for which he' had sagacious remark, he preceded each Catholic Church. Welcoming rod and Poltava, 180 miles from traded two wrist watches. It uses selection with a brief explanation of over three -hundred guest was Kiev. He said he had visited Kiev. 36 millimeter film and the name on its origin and theme, giving his au Thomas Б. Kennedy, Mayor of Syra It took him 1V2 hours by plane to!it was in Russian writing: ФЕД« dience a fleeting glimpse of the gaye- cuse. The church choir, under the get toJCiev. Said he almost visited It had Russian writing all over it. ty, tragedy and color that is Ukraine. direction of Processor Peter Dowhy Lviv, too, but missed the plane and Asked him if he picked up any of His program included the "Prelude sang three Ukrainian songs: Otche therefore couldn't make it. This fel the Ukrainian language while up On A Chant to Our Lady of Kamin- Nash (Our Father,) Vecherniy Dzvin low almost visited Moscow also, but there and he said no, since his buddy ka," "A Lament" by Koshetz, (Evening Bells) and Oi Vydno Selo kept putting it off and off until he A was a Pole who used his Polish lan "Danse" by Akimenko, "A Song of ( Village in Sight). finally left without seeing it. guage and be strung along with him America" by V. Barvinsky, and! Arthur J. Karnuth, District Direc- "He said that most of the towns wherever he went. "Melody" by L Vorobkevytch; also a tor. Immigration and Naturalization, and places he had seen in Ukraine "He said that everywhere he went medley of his own compositions, and Buffalo District, gave a short talk had been blown out of existence, on or visited he saw scorched earth, several request numbers. He was that subject, leaving the people in a pitiful state except for Kiev, which wasn't so accompanied by Mr. Stickney on the Following that, Mary Louise Wach- with their scorched earth. As for! bad. I asked him if he had tried any piano. . na sang a solo. A symposium of buying food to restaurants, there Lf the native dishe8 while there> He Mr. Prydatkevytch, virtually steal-; short talks by representatives of vari- І was no such thing. I asked him if'ggjd , , wnat rema ing one hour of time out of his ous groups was the next on the pro-1 he had seen or heard anything of j restaurants was off limits. crowded calendar to play for the gram. Represented on this sym-1 the Ukrainian independence move-j .,. . ^A Ukrainian club, was rewarded for his posium were the Poles by Edmund B. j ment. He replied that if anyone is generous gesture by hearty applause j Tyminski; Italians, Frank Del Vec-1 caught discussing such matters he and an invitation to give another chio; Daughters of the American j is either put on the work gang dig- recital when he is again in the Na- j Revolution, Mrs. Frederick Keppel; ging sewers, ditches and such or sent tion's Capital. Anne Dudiak. j Chinese, A. Kamping Lew; Greeks, [ to the salt mines, depending on the Daniel Pananicles; Ukrainians. Rev. | offense. He said he did not fail to -гті • їжі т* і Igor G" РеГеП8КУ; Negroes, Theo- notice the hard feeling between the might infringe upon censorship re- Ukrailie WaS BetrayeCtdore Brown; French, George Vinette; Ukrainians and Russians. ! gulations." • IfVfQ Japanese, Mrs. Fume Kitozawa; ІП ХЇ/1Ї/ Spaniards, Dr. Homero Seris; Coun- ail of Jewish Women, Miss Bertha There can be no permanent peace F r e n s d о r f ; Germans, Clarence ! Kiepura's Comment on Pre-War Polish in Europe without a just settlement, Foertch, and Irish, Hon. William Б. j Persecution of Ukrainians of the.Ukrainian question. Allied war.McLusky. aims should include free Ursine, і A vocal solo was sung by one of I Detroit's Little Poland once more and Lithuanian minority groups. I This writer spoke at the Шгаіп- Syracuse's prominent singers, Mrs. 118 agog This time it w over Jan am for letting Poland j^ e . ian Day- raHy May 30, 1939, asking! Pauline Hundshamer. She sang "Ave | Kiepura> the noted Ponsh tenor> As thjng that beiong8 to her. But the for unity among toe Ukrainians of І Мала' and "America the Beautiful." reported by Philip Adler in the territory in the eastern boundary is Russia and the Western Ukraine, j A patriotic tableau followed with all j NoVember 23 number of The Detroit occupied by these groups. If they East Galicia. As in the case of Ire-, nationalities represented by girls | Newe the furor over Kiepura, the do not wish to remain with Poland, .land, so in our ease, religion has| dressed in their native costumes. The j Prince Danilo of the "Merrv Widow/ we should let them ge. kept us apart. I have also stressed | dinner consisted entirely of Ukrain- ^ in Detroit when in a long « Poland's domestic and foreign the fact that a strong Ukraine and Ш dishes; holubtsi with sause, hot; edftorial on November 21 the De p^Vies, th mTtoft £r without Poland could act as buffer stetes beets, nalesnyky rolls, celery, olives, l troit r^ennik Polski (Polish Daily ?м"й ^ввСоеотвлТ SwAo- between Germany and Russia but m- rolls, honey cake, jelly torte, tea and Newg) addre8Sed an open letter to Jj~ TJS-l£raim*i*^ eo e AU e [e iSL^miperialism and conquesZ2&J?**t and now, die2"- evidentl?I ^ y ^please°? d, P^nwith t thwerequitee dinnerj кіер^, in part as follo^s: -^Po^^eiSt^ae n- trusted by all her neighbors, can on- and program, "Dear Mr. Opera Star—Stage your tagonized them all. As a result, Po- ly turn to her benefactor, Russia. ANNE DYDYK I operettas, chase your merry widows. ^nd was left without a friend." The Ukrainians are the largest na 525 Stafford Avenue 18U1£ vour Peasant songs, but, for Kiepura then went on to recom- tional group (45,000i000) in Europe Syracuse 6 N Y 'God,& sake- stoP giving aid to the mend that Post"war Poland should be- to whom the doctrine of self-deter- • = mination has not been applied. What ' ' . | murdeenemiers youofr Polanfatherlandd that; thetheyy macayn comcountry'e "a spartne futurre witprogresh Russis aan idn thaprost - of the Atlantic Charter? What of Candid Comments do that without your help. Let Poles sperity." the four freedoms ? Will we be one if j h to be a good sport you die an honorable death; let them Editor's Marginal Note: Although you w 8 leave behind them a clean memory, it is a welcome relief to find a pro- of the cherished few to come under, mu8t let people teach you a lot of it? After the last war the Ukrain- things you already know. unpolluted by your treason which minent Pole admitting pre-war Po- ians were divided up by four powers Diplomacy is the art of letting the you are now parading under the land's persecution of her minorities, —Russia, Poland, Rumania and Cze other man have your own way. mask of cosmopolitan patriotism." particularly the Ukrainians,—some- choslovakia. "As an introduction to this letter, thing which most Poles, including Poland's campaigns to extend its і Wisecrack of the Week the editorial read: their leaders such as Mikolajczyk, frontiers took place at a time when "When (Kiepura) began his oper-^ot оп1У refu8e £ admit but go as The way things have been going, far as to the people of Poland were вивtertag g time to stert calling Nads atic career in Berlin, he used to be, virtually ignore the very untold misery (see Bnell s Poland І^ІфЕтеп." _ ц^ше Оиігіег- the guest of Goering and say: 'I and 'existence of the close to 7 million Goering.' When he was making mo-1 Ukrainians within pre-war Poland * Key io Europe.") Pilsudski marched Journal. on Viino. Gen. Haller, equipped by the ney in Poland, he used to say: 'I;^ndanes-still the interests of and Marshall Smigly-Rkiz.'" (truth and justice would have been Allie<\ took Eastern Galicia against Appreciative Russians the opposition of the Peace Con _ л . 7! „ , І в. .. far better served if Kiepura and ference of the Allies. In Russia, John Jones, the average toterviewed at the Hotel Statler in jother8 ,|ke hjm hfid mad/8uch ^ What of the forgotten peace of man, used to be dubbed Ivan Ivano- Detroit Юерига responded, accord- admission Шоге the when it £rest-litovsk ? The Ukrainian Re- vich. Before long he may bear the ing to Adler, that the Dziennik Pol-'was most needed durm £ heJMiav public was proclaimed in Jan. 1918.1 startling name of General Motors skl atteck upon him was all over a f Polish cution of ^ minor- Oct. 18, 1918, the Western Ukrainn Ivanovich, or Studebaker Ivanovich. speech I delivered Wednesday Nov. ш ш then ш d others ian Republic was proclaimed. At-Major General John R. Dean, chief 15, before the I^troitLutnia Singing iremained , , ^ on . tacked ffiercely by Poles and Rus of the American military mission in Society. I told Lutma precisely 8UDject sians, the Ukrainians strove in vain Moscow, recently returned to Wash what I had told President Roosevelt, _, .. for recognition at the Paris Peace ington, told a press conference Rus October 6, when I had the honor to Moreover, toe interests of truth Conference. The Allies listened to sians so appreciate American trucks be his guest at the White House. The •»d ^ustlce would be better served the Poles, who claimed that the Uk that "Russian babies are being nnmed substance of both was: itf m recommending in relation to Po- rainians were under the domination for popular makes of American auto l land's minorities that Poland "should of the Bolsheviks. motive equipment." "What is happening in Poland to- \ h m go," Mr. Kiepura did not there three years ago, when Premier et t e The case of Ukraine is a history day is precisely what happened j absorptioiea n inferenc of these etha minoritiest he favor, spar the of a people led astray by democracy, Sikorski was killed, and what hap- ticularlVe thy e the Ukrainians, by Soviet a people who lived and hoped in gave way not only to Eastern Gali- pened there in Pilsudski's days in і Russia. In admitting Polish abuses democracy. Instead of democracy cia trot in Russia as well and the 1918, and in the Napoleonic era 150 0f the Ukrainians he should have the JUUes gave the Ukrainians people grudgingly accepted Commun- years ago. likewise admitted the incontrovertible death and destruction when they de- km. What will be the fat* of these v "As far as the domestic policy is fact that the Ukrainians want neither cided,to help Kolchak. Crushed be- Ukrainians after the war? concerned; the government of Poland Polish nor Russian nor Nazi rule but tween the Poles and the Russians and j . A UfraJniaiT Observer. cannot forever go on persecuting her only true Ukrainian rule, in an united Allies, the Ukrainian government (Buffalo Evening News, Nov. 9, 1944) Ukrainian, White Russian, Jewish and independent Ukrainian republic?.
. Teitotto Utaraiiwans Prommeirt in High School -Football "GETTING THE 'BIRD"* Among the Toronto young Ukrain- A couple of years ago we made the following statement: "The ffefM i ians whose names figure prominently 7 in athletics, are the following: ; is the only Nation that eetebratee Peter Karpuk, itforman Nykoliak, Thanksgiving because we're the only ' Peter Sulyma and Bill Danylchuk nation that's got the turkey!" Well, Щ who were nominated recently for the we take it all back, especially since >• Toronto High School All Star foet-^ our v4sit еажіу last week to- see our ball team. Eugene Lazar was named butcher about .getting a turkey. Boy - the All Star €oach. were, we lucky.. .rlucky «to ^et away•*< with only three broken ribs! 43ow * Peter Karpuk,.^ge 17 is a kicking, were we to know. 300 housewives plunging half, fife set a new record picked that hour to .invade the but- . of 12 touchdown passes in 3 games, Cher shop? All we can say i»f >the also a record of 8 touchdown passes Pilgrims had it .soft. All thty thad in one game.- Besides football Peter to fight vweare *. few Indians .when- is a well known baseball pitcher. He they wanted'Turkey! has offers from the Toronto Maple' Leafs, Montreal Royals and Newark Back »4t ^the house we picked