The Ukrainian Weekly 1959

РПС LXW 4. 196 IN TWO SECTIONS SVOBODA, UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1959 Ш TWO SECTIONS No. 196 VOL. LXV1

L. Palamarchuk, Soviet Ukraine's 250th ANNIVERSARY OF HETMAN UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASS'N Cleveland, O. and Amsterdam, N.Y. Foreign Minister, Attacks "Captive MAZEPA'S RISE AGAINST RUSSIA OFFICE OPENED IN TORONTO Observe 65th UNA Anniversary

Notions" Resolution 170M959 CLEVELAND, Ohio. — On The concert concluded with SEVERAL HUNDRED PERSONS ATTEND OPENING AND the einging of the Ukrainian SAYS "UKRAINE IS FREE," NEEDS NO "LIBERATION" Sunday, October 4, 1959 over JUBILEE ANNIVERSARY OF U.N.A. BRANCH GOO persons attended a jubilee national anthem. concert. In the Lincoln High Prior to the concert Mr. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. peaceful populations of the TORONTO, Ont. — Several M. Koliankiveky (We and the School Auditorium commerat- Slobodian held a meeting with Sept. 30. — "We cannot pass Ukraine, Byelorussia, Lithu hundred persons took part in World) and Lev Kossar (The ing the 65th anniversary of the UNA officials from 13 UNA over in silence the actions of ania, Latvia and Estonia. •a combined ceremony of opon- Telegram, a Toronto daily). Cleveland branches. : Ukrainian National Associa the United States designed to "I cannot help reminding the ng an office of the Ukrainian On Sunday, a banquet com tion. The program included the * arouse hostility between the distinguished but forgetful National Association and the bined with a musical program opening address of Dmytro AMSTERDAM, NY. On peoples as one ofAhe objectives Senators, and likewise their celebration of the 20th anni took place in the Auditorium Szmagala, UNA Adviser, the Saturday, October 3, 1959 the of the cold war. I have in advisers who come from the versary- of UNA Branch 432 in of the Ukrainian National Fed rendition of the American na Ukrainian community in Am mind so candid and unfriendly ranks of traitors to their own Toronto on Saturday and Sun eration of Canada, commemor tional anthem by Dorothy sterdam, N. Y. observed the an act on the part of the in countries, that the Ukrainian day, October 3 and 4, 1959. ating the 65th anniversary of Olen and two principal ad sixty-fifth anniversary of the fluential circles of the United people have I twice known the The opening of the UNA UNA and the 20th anniversa dresses, by Roman Slobodian. Ukrainian National Associa States as the adoption by the great joy of liberation. It hap Office took place on Saturday- ry of Branch 432, the largest Supreme Treasurer of the tion with a banquet, in which United States Congress of the pened first in the days of the connected with a press confer UNA lodge in Canada. Rev. UNA, who spoke in Ukrainian, over 200 persons took part. notorious, resolution calling great Bocialist October Revo ence, with an address by D. Yaroslav Benesh opened the and the other by Taras Szma The principal speaker at the for the liberation, mind you, lution, and then it happened Halychyn, Supreme President banquet by an invocation, while gala, former president of the fete was Dr. Jaroslaw Pa- of so-called captive nations, again when the fascist hordes of the UNA, who spoke about Volodymyr Kossar, UNA Au UYL-NA, who addressed the doch, Supreme Secretary of including the Ukraine. The au were booted out of our native :he importance of this event. ditor and Director of the UNA gathering in English. Messrs. UNA, who spoke on the vital thors of the resolution, by a land. The Ukrainian people He said that the Ukrainian Office, delivered an introduc I. J. Bilinsky, member of the ity and progress of the UNA. etroke of the pen, create on are free, and their freedom is National Association has 6,221 tory epeecn. Yury Karmanin City Council, and Omar E. Other speakers were Rev. Lev the map of the* USSR some guaranteed by the constitu members in Canada (out of the was toastmaster at the cere Mllea, president of the United Lishchynsky, Ukrainian Cath sort of. new geographic con tion of the Ukrainian SSR and total 72,735 UNA members in mony. Ukrainian Societies of Cleve olic pastor, Rev. Fr. Cherniav- cepts, and then include them the constitution of the USSR. general) and the UNA assets The principal speaker was land, also spoke. sky, Byelorussian pastor, and in the list of countries which We would advise the self-ap in Canada amount to $2,020,- D. Halychyn, Supreme UNA The principal attraction of representatives of UNA are to be subjected to 'libera pointed 'liberators' to put that 837.40 (out of the total UNA President, who praised the the artistic program was the Branches: Dmytro Oliynyk tion.' " in their pipes and smoke it." assets of $22,246,574.46). members of the UNA in Can appearance of Donna Grescoe, (UNA Branch 266, Volody So spoke Luka C. Palamar Mr. Palamarchuk further Messrs. Volodymyr Kossar, ada for their zeal and devotion talented Ukrainian American myr Zaparanluk, UNA District chuk, Foreign Minister of the tackled the German problem UNA Auditor, Bohdan Zorych, to the oldest and largest violinist, who played several Organizer; V. Zyma (UNA Ukrainian SSR, ' In denuncia and attacked the West German UNA Adviser, and Anthony Ukrainian fraternal organiza selections. Branch 484, Utica), P. Dzin- tion of the cold war and "militarism," which brought Dragan, editor of Svoboda, tion. Messrs. W. Hirniak, B. The other half of the con dtirysty and William Kolody against the "Captive Nations so much suffering to the were spokesmen and gave ex Zorych, M. Mota, president of cert included a recitation by (UNA Branch 191, Troy). P. Week" Resolution before the Ukrainian people. He pointed tensive information on the UNA Branch 432, and A. Dra Ihor Oliar, songs by the choir Seredynska (UNA Branch 79, U.N. General 'Assembly. He out that one of the Bonn Min progress and development of gan also spoke at the banquet. "Dnipro" under the direction Broadalbln) and S. Hnatkiv- recalled that Alfred Rosen isters, Theodore Oberlaender, the UNA in Canada. The pur The artistic part of the pro of E. O. Sadovsky, and "Ho eky, who represented the lo berg "worked out nightmarish is again teaching the German pose of the UNA Office in To gram included the youth or min" under the baton of Prof. cal branch of the Ukrainian plans for the dismemberment youth how to "dismember and ronto, they said, is a) to rep chestra of the Musical Insti Y. Barnych; and performances Congress Committee of Amer of the USSR and the enslave enslave Ukraine." resent the Ukrainian National tute under the direction of by the dartce ensembles,—first ica. There were also recita- і ment of its pebble?' (Cf. "Foreign Minister of Association in Canada; b) to Prof. Kovaliv, with Prof. Mar by members of "Plast" under tions, and orchestra! numbers - "From • our pomt of view," Soviet Ukraine ' Speaks." a coordinate UNA activities in tha Barabash. at the piano; the direction of Dada Ruden- by the 3UMA orchestra of he continued, "It ф rather ilh- reportage by' the Hon. Nich that country; c) to be aspokes- rhythmic dances by a group Utica' under the direction of ska, and the other by SUMA ! sound "arid improper for the olas Mandziuk, Member of the man of specific interests of of Ukrainian Girl Seouts and under V. Raitsa. M. Kozhakhar. " } parliament- of ejibh a country Canadian Parliament and UNA Canadian members in the the recitation by Mrs. Kempe as the-United'States to re Member of the Canadian De general system of the UNA. of a humorous poem about the peat tfce ігіШІіЬпв1 of char legation to the U. N. General A portrait of Hetntan Ivan Mazepa of Ukraine by Peter Andru- • Press Well Represented UNA and its leaders. Mr. Zo Ukrainian National Home in Jersey latans'* m' politics' Who only're- Assembly, which appears else •siv of Philadelphia, painted on the occasion of the 250th an c Several representatives of rych acted as master of cere ceriUy ne}ped'ihe>Naiis to de where in 'this issue of The niversary of hie rise against Peter I of Russia, oppressor of the Ukrainian Canadian press monies and Mr. Karmanin de» City Observes First Anniversary Ukrainian Weekly — Ed). Ukraine, і The portrait. will be exhibited for the first.time in, took part in the press con livered the closing remarks, stroy аяИ -• exterminate the Were president of the Ukrain the Hunter College A'uditorhinv Nefr York City, where* the ference. Among them were: and Very Rev. M. Markiw, JERSEY СИТ, N. >.'w Over 500 persons attended а ian National Home Michael United Ukrainian American Organizations of Greater New York Father K h о m у n (Catholic OSBM, offered the concluding banquet on Sunday, Septem Tislo, Draytrp Halychyn, UNA will give a commemorative concert in honor of this great son weekly Our Aim), Father Svir- prayer. Ukrainians Hail Secretary Benson ber 27, 1959 commemorating President, Roman Slobodian, of Ukraine this coming Sunday, October 11, 1959. sky (The Light), Anatole Kur- Minister Michael Starr who the first anniversary of the UNA Treasurer, Mrs. Myro- In Kiev dydyk and Oraelan Tarnav- was scheduled to be a guest new Ukrainian National Home alava Dragan and John Ber- • Uu, . • '• - - sky (Free Word), Alexander speaker, was prevented from in Jersey City, which was vetsky, member of the board right. There are no secrets in Matla (Homin Ukrainy), M. attending the celebration, and ИЕу.'икг”'а'іпе, Oct. 2. Farming Town of Mazeppa, Minn, opened a year ago. The pro and manager, respectively, Mr. our agriculture. The important Seleahko (The New Pathway), sent a congratulatory tele (AP).-îJ5^taryt .of Agricul gram included the Invocation Kostiv and Anthony Dragan, thing is to move up the stan P! Volynlak (New Days). B. gram, which was read along ture ЕІр* Taft.: Benson was Salutes Ukrainian Hero on His by Reverend Anthony Borsa, editor of Svoboda, dards of living of the masses Alexandriv (Young Ukraine), with others at the ceremony. warmly'' applauded by the local Ukrainian Catholic pas Marcel і Wagner, well-known of our people." 250th Anniversary tor, and speeches by two other Ukrainians when he visited in Jersey City attorney and for Mr. Benson'B offer of help priests, Revs. Z. Bachynaky mer member of the State 'legis the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. MAZEPPA. Minn. (ЛР).- Performers included the was made at a conference at Son of One-Time Nanticoke, Pa. and Gumovsky. lature, acted as toastmaster tended by hundreds of farm Nearly a thousand persons of "Dnipro" Ukrainian chorus He said on arrival: Other speakers at the fete at the banquet. "We will offer all the infor ers and experts, including Ukrainian rescent, many gaily- and the "Cheremosh" Folk Ukrainian Coal Miner Makes mation we have," he said. Vladimir V. Matskevich, So costumed, thronged this little ballet dance group of the Twin "Friendly competition is all viet Minister of Agriculture. southern Minnesota farming Cities. Grade in Hollywood Chaika Dancers of Canada To town Sunday, October 4, 1959. Representatives of the Ukrain to salute the memory of one ian cities, headed by Prof. HOLLYWOOD (AP).—How Ford, breaking in on a con Appear at Soyuzivka This Weekend Dr. G. Starosolsky Directs Course of Ukraine's greatest heroes. Alexander A. Granovsky, pre are you going to keep them ference of the director and They gathered in celebra sented a portrait of Ivan Ma down in the coal mines after producer Leland Hayward. On Understanding the USSR tion of the 250th anniversary zepa to the local high school, they hear what's happened to "I talked fast without taking of the death of Ivan Mazepa, an original map of Ukraine, Nick Adams? a breath, then I Imitated Jim At Catholic University Hetman of Ukraine and Kozak medallions to всіїлої and com Not many months ago, Nick my Cagney and Cary Grant. leader in the Battle of Poltava munity leaders, and a plaque enjoyed the popular status in I knew I had to keep talking, WASHINGTON.—Dr. George 1959. On the agenda of the in which forces of Ukraine and to Mayor Wilbur Bright com Hollywood of being mostly the else Ford would have thrown Starosolsky haa'fceen invited course are such topics as ge Sweden fought the armies of memorating Hetman Ivan Ma chum of Elvis Presley. Natalie me out on my clean sailor to direct an 8-week course, opolitics, history, national Russia's Peter the Great. zepa, wh'ch was donated by Wood, and Bob Wagner. It got suit." "Understanding the Soviet problems, political and party The village of Mazeppa was the Shevchenko Scientific So him invited to many fancy The crusty director chewed systems, labor situation, so named in his honor 104 years places, but usually the label on his cigar, turned to an as Union and Its .Peoples," at the ciety of New York. cial, cultural and religious life, ago by a Minnesota pioneer, on Nick's tuxedo was stamp sistant, and yelled: "Hire that Catholic University in the na economics, psychology and Ira Seeley, who admired Lord Aside from its name, the ed: "Property of Warner little so he'll shut up." tion's capital. The course be everyday life. The course is Byron's poem about the Ukrain town of Mazeppa has no ties Bros. Wardrobe Dept." One small problem: the com gan on October 4, 1959 and part of the- "Adult Education ian patriot. with Ukraine. In fact, Nick acknowledges pany was leaving immediately will last until November 22, Program." Visiting Ukrainians, many "So far as I know we have he owned only one suit to his for location on Midway Island of them members of the no one of Ukrainian ancestry." name—and not many shirts for three months Nick still JUDGE OONAS, U.NJV. MEMBER, AMONG JUDGES Ukrainian organizations in said the school superintendent and socks. was in the Coast Guard. AT NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHIEF JUSTICES Twin Cities ami townspeople Richard Miller. "But of course, Today, he has an office at "I applied for a month's packed the small school audi we're very happy for this oc Paramount, with secretaries, in leave and got it. When I got torium for an afternoon pro casion." a building that houses big to Midway, then I asked for gram staged by the Ukrainian Mazeppa is 20 miles north producers and top money monthly extensions." organizations. of Rochester, Minn. maker Jerry Lewis. His enlistment up. Nick Nick's dressing room on the came back to Hollywood and CHAIKA DANCERS OP CANADA Paramount lot is one of the pushed himself Into bigger and Mazep aAnniversary Celebration luxurious, with fancy bar and better roles. His big break SOYUZIVKA, Kernhonkson,; for two years, even,- Sun well-stocked shelves. came last New Yer's Eve when N. Y.—This coming Saturday, day. They have had several To Be Held in New York This Sunday Next week producer-director he, producer Andrew J. Pena- October 10, 1959, the Ukrain very successful jierfurmances Mervyn Leroy, who seldom en dy and director Irvin Kersh- ian National Association Es which include the United Ap NEW YORK. A concert poetry written by Hetman tertains for anybody below the ner, came up with the idea of tate in the Catskills will be peal Show at the Canadian and stage presentation in com Ivan Mazepa, Lord Byron. Vic rank of five star generals, car a Jimmy Dean-like character host to 40 young Ukrainian National Exhibition, Toronto, memoration of the 250th an tor Hugo and Leaya Chraply- dinals, undeposed kings and in the Old West. dancers, members of the "Chai Ontario, last October. 1958; a Detroit Benefit; and local niversary of Hetman Ivan Ma va, which will be recited by Jack L. Warner, is tossing a Out of that spawning came ka Dancers" group, who are zepa will be one of the most artiets Y. Pinot-Rudakevych big party at Romanoff's. Guest "The Rebel," a new entry in appearances in Hamilton, To coming from Canada for their ronto, St. Catherine, and Nia important cultural events of and I. Kononiv, and writer of honor: Nick Adams, for TV's Western avalanche. The first api>earance at Soyuzivka. the season. The program will Dima and poetess Patricia Ky- merly Nicholas Adamshock, show is already sold and slot gara Falls captivating and The Group comprises 40 thrilling their audiences. take place on Sunday, October lyna; piano solos by W Shlem- son of a onetime Ukrainian ted on the ABC-TV network Canadian • Ukrainian young 11, 1959 at 5:00 P.M., at Hun this month In the prime 9 P.M. The Dancers wear authentic kevych and the vocal numbers coal miner from Nanticoke, |)eoplo from St. Catherines ter College, 695 Park Avenue by the Chorus of the Ukrain Pa. Sunday night spot. costumes to depict the mood and Hamilton, most of whom (69th Street, between Park ian Musical Institute, under Nick wanted to be an actor. and dances representing the are students and a number of and Lexington Avenues) in the direction of Yuriy Oransky. but he never got any closer FRENCHMAN OF UKRAIN various provinces of Ukraine. New York City. Part Two will consist of the to it than frying hamburgers IAN UKKSIN WINS "MR. young professional and busi There is poetry, freshness, ness people. The Group is This picture of "the Hon. John S. Gonas, Chief Justice of Indiana The Mazepa program will presentation of Hetman Ivan in a Hollywood drive-in. So he UNIVERSE" TITLE vigor, in Ukrainian dances, consist of two principal Mazepa, a stage play in three enlisted In the Coast Guard. WARSAW, Poland. October sponsored by Ukrainian Na consisting of a combination of and a member of the Ukrainian National Association, was taken tional Youth Federation. The at the recent National Conference of Chief Justices. Standing parts: Part One will in parts by Hryhor Merriaro A tour of sea duty ended in 5, (UPI).-—Gouin Mierczuk, 25. sketches, graceful, lyrical, and Instructor is Jerry Klun of from left to right: John S- Gonas, Chief Justice of Indiana; clude the address of Prof. Luzhnytaky, in which several Long Beach at the precise a blond blue-eyed French vigorous, telling of a story Albert ConwayrChief Justice of New York; Carl V. Weygandt, Volodymyr Sichynaky, chair actors will take part. The time director John Ford start weight-lifter of Ukrainian ex Hamilton, Ontario, who is him through the media of folk Chief Justice of .Ohio; Benjamin R. Jones, Associate Justice, man of the Mazepa Jubilee presentation will be under the ed "Mr. Roberts." Nick hitch traction, won the title of "Mr. self an accomplished- dancer ballet. Supreme Cou^t, of Pennsylvania. Missing in the picture are Committee (which functions technical direction of Bohdan hiked to the Warner lot and Universe of 1959" in interna and choreographer and has a It is expected that several the Hon. Joe Daily* Chief Justice of Illinois and the Hon. Joseph under the auspices of the Pazdriy, Stepan Kryzhnnivsky, braehly walked in the main tional competition here last wide background in Ukrainian persons, including other youth Weintraub, Chief Justice of New Jersey, who also attended Ukrainian Congress Committee Nina Klymovsky, Fedir Lu- gate. night. He succeeds Tommy folk dance and ballet. These groups, will spend this week the conference. of America); recitations ofcyahyn and Yuriy Kononiv. Inside, he headed right for Kono of the United Stiiea. dancers have been practicing end at Soyuzivka. SVOBODA, UKRAINIAN WEEKLY,'SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1959 No. 196 n^GAA#SV0B0Dl FOREIGN MINISTER OFH SOVIETS THE U.N.A. AND OUR YOUTH UNA NOTES AND COMMENTS щтщшт тштиш мак • ««•«««*« »«'«x/ UKRAINE SPEAKS The following is an address cer field, the new Olympic size By THEODORE LUTWINIAK FOUNDED 1893 By HON. NICHOLAS MANDZIUK delivered by Taraa G. Szma swimming pool, all these giver Since many officers of the first time іЬвї people W gala, immediate past president us, the .youth, for our activi tranches of the Ukrainian Na- come to the UNA with such a Ukrainian newspaper published daily except Sundays. Mondays Canadian M.P. and Member of the Canadian Delegation of the UYL-NA, at a concert ties and enjoyment 65 years & holidays (Saturday & Monday issues combined) to the U.N. .ional Association read this complaint,, and It probably by the Ukrainian National Association, Inc. commemorating the 65th an ago we did not have this. •olumn, according to their will not be the last time. at 81-83 Grand Street, Jersey City 3, N J. The debate in the General niversary' of the UNA in Cleve The UNA, through moral оегзопаї word and letters we Branch officers, and parti Second Class_Postage paid at the Post Office of Jersey City, N. J. Assembly continues, but I do land on October 4, 1959. support and encouragement in have received, we will touch cularly the secretary, must Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for Section lot propose to make a resume • its publications and, in many upon certain items which in realize the importance of their 1130 of Act of October 3. 1917 authorized July 31. 191P >f the various speeches. Coun- I consider it an honor to rases, actual financial aid, has volve them. For instance, positions. They I have certain ries great or small have an have been given the opportun certainly played no small role there is the matter of certifi duties to perfoM^ and it aD In the development of Ukrain boils down to one word-r The Ukrainian Weekly Hjual voice in the U.N. Through ity to give to you this brief cate loans. Any UNA member . English Language Supplement heir spokesmen, each in turn, address on a subject that is ian professionals in the United whose certificate has a cash servlce. The officers were uitlines its problems, attacks States. elected to thei**" position*.by Адреса: "SVOBODA", P. O. Box 346. JERSEY CITY 3. N. J. close to us ail—the Ukrain value may apply for a ' loan ir complains against its neigh- ian National Association and Articles in Svoboda, The against that certificate for an the members, and.any officer )or, offers solutions to all specifically on this, its 65th Ukrainian Weekly and numer amount not exceeding the who fails to provide the aery-. vorld problems and often anniversary celebration'. I will ous books published due to cash value; this loan may be .cee expected of him is plant ANNIVERSARY OF HETMAN ;oars above the clouds with approach the subject from the the efforts of the UNA, were paid back at a small rate of in ing the aeeda of misimderA ta theories, or as far out eyes of a youthful member of guiding lights to parents who terest at the convenience of the standing which may result in IVAN MAZEPA if sight, as the Russian Lunik. the Ukrainian National Asso encouraged and sacrificed to member. The branch officers loss of members. What may The smaller the country the ciation. > send their children through are Involved in that they sign seem trivial to an officer may be an important thing to the more vociferous and long-wind Actually this anniversary college. 65 years ago we did not the papers connected with the Thie year Ukrainians the world over arc solemnly com members. The old alibi that ed are its spokesmen. The should mean more to us, the have this. transaction; the member signs, memorating one of the most illustrious and albeit one of a certain member did not.iai; younger the nation the deeper youth, than to any other group, The over-all Ukrainian com too, of course. The UNA is the most tragic periods in their modern history. This year tend the monthly branch meet ts spokesmen delve into in for we have so much to gain munity and its organizations sues interest due notice slips marks the 250th anniversary of the rise and fall of liftman ing and that Is why he did not ternational problems and mer from the 65 years of effort on have always received moral to all members who have made Ivan Mazepa. He rose against Czar Peter I because he could get his Interest notice is ho cilessly castigate their former Hon. Nicholas Mandziuk, the part of the pioneers who and financial support from the loans once annually. These longer an acceptable eJtedse* no longer endure his exploitation of Ukraine. He made a oppressors. The nations are Canadian M. P. founded the organization and Ukrainian National Associa slips are sent to the branch because it is the simplest thing military alliance with King Charles XII of Sweden, when this just like individual human be those who followed in their tion. secretary and it is his respon dictated by Moscow, and the In the world to mail the notice "Lion of the North," after a series of severe battles with the ings, they quarrel, they threat footsteps. They have left re- Such youth organizations as sibility to see to it that, the same situation exists in all to the member* And another Muscovites, turned toward the borders of Ukraine. Both suffered en, they love and they hate eults of their labors to us so the Ukrainian Youth League proper members get them other cabinet posts or port alibi, that the branch is not a catastrophic defeat at Poltava in 1709, which put an end to each other. that we can benefit of North America, Ukrainian without fail. Now let's not folios. The Minister of For pull any punches — it is a sad required to use its funds for Sweden as a great Northern power, and initiated a long en On the corridors the first eign Affairs of the Ukrainian Let us ask- ourselves: How Professional Society, PLAST, SUM, MUN, student organiza fact that some secretaries postage, Is also out of order slavement of Ukraine by Russia,. week's tension has been releas SSR has yet to appoint the can we benefit? Forget for the because practically all of the ed. These days, even the tions and many others, have do not bother to give these There is no room in this editorial to go deeply into the ambassador to any foreign moment that the UNA is the notices to their members. branches charge the membere historical developments that led to the Swedish-Ukrainian guards smile at you and all country, the first consul, and company with which we Insure always received and will con The UNA is obligated to is a small amount' monthly for because Khrushchev has come one wonders what matters our lives, for if this were the tinue to receive support from alliance, and to Poltava, or to dwell in detail on the conditions sue interest notices and any administration purposes and and gone, although his shadow does his department in Kiev main reason that we belong to the Ukrainian National Asso- which existed in Ukraine prior to Mazepa's rise against members who fails to get his the members are entitled to still lurks in the corridors, handle outside of his leading, the organization, we would not college. 65 years ago we did Russia. notice has every right to com something for their money. but his "prophetic" sayings and I.would say very ably, the be here today. Let us talk of not have this. Suffice to say that Hetman Mazepa for twenty-two success plain, about it There have The few branches that do- not are re-echoed less and less. delegation to the General As the real advantages that the Finally, our greatest gift ful years, ruled over Ukraine (that is, Hermanshohyna, which been a number of serious mis charge their members 5 or 10 On September 30th,. 1959, sembly of the U.N. youth have as members. the opportunity of carrying on cents a month for administra embraced only the left-bank of the Dnieper,., while the Zapo- understandings involving non .which but for a f«(w "ifs," As for the contents of his" this work, backed by these 65 tion purposes,have no ex'cuse rozhiaVSicIt the right-bank of Dnieper, as Wn as Calicia and The fact that we, Ukrainian delivery of interest notices. could have been a great day address, as I said above, Mr. American youth, have the op years of accumulated wealth, either, because they hare the Volhynia were not parts-ofxhjs npaln\)>; fie vaa, elected hetman for the Ukrainian race. One should unable us, the youth, Quite recently two elderly Palamarchuk showed that'he portunity to belong to a Ukrain members—a man and wife— right to maintain an adminiB- and such he was, although Musc'ovy, on the basis of the of this 'race 'spoke to the na grasped the world situation ian organization that holds the realize the goals and dreams tration fund, according to By- Treaty of Pereyaslav. exercised "protection" over Ukraine. tions' of the world—in the which spurred on the pioneers. visited the UNA offices and and, although we did not respect of our American so complained bitterly that they Laws, and their failure to haye This meant the constant interference of Muscovy into the in World Parliament, The author agree with him, one could not ciety is certainly something we We must make use of these such a fund is not the fault .of of these words waited in an educational, organizational and never had received Interest ternal affairs of the Hetman's state, intrigues sown by it among accuse him of ignorance. In can be proud of. Not only its notices until this year, though the UNA. , . .-'!' the Kozak officers and nobility, but worst of all, the systematic xious anticipation that after brief, he "approved" and ap financial position, but its cul sports facilities, and through noon to hear Ukraine's spokes a united effort, while building they both had made loans in There are other items, Be draining of Kozak troope which the Czar needed to wage his plauded Khrushchev's proposal tural and political endeavors 1937. The interest involved man, a tall, dark and hand to world disarmament, he ateo a bigger and better UNA, gain sides Interest, due notices, war against Sweden and elsewhere. have gained the admiration of was considerable, for no in which Ц>е members are en some curly-haired Palamar took strong exception to cer the American public. 65 years complete recognition for The crisis was precipitated by the Great Northern War, chuk, who came on the ros Ukraine, its people and culture. terest payments, had been titled to receive, by mail it tain resolutions passed by the ago, we did not have this made for 22 years. These peo which began in 1700, and for which Mazepa was called con trum and spoke. I would say U. S. Congress referring to necessary. These items a*e': All across the United States Only if we make use of the ple were very perturbed and, dividend checker, notices for sistently to supply Kozak troops to the army of Peter I. sincerely, at least he sounded "Captive Nations" and I wish efforts made in these years and sincere, and his address cover Ukrainian American youth has jthough they took the sugges UNA dues; e.nd.receipts for in Regrettably for Ukraine, the Zaporozhian Sich was not a to quote his exact words: the opportunity of participa follow through with our own tion to check with their branch ed a multitude of world prob- "We cannot pass over in terest paid and.dues paid. All part of the Hetman state, which provided for separate foreign tion in sports programs using efforts, does this anniversary officers as to why they not of these items are important and military policies of the Zaporozhians, which were not al lems.finding solutions for some silence the actions of the have any real meaning. In his first address to the As the facilities of UNA homes get their notices each year, to the members and no. branch ways, identical with, those of Mnêpa. M^wna's. lpng asso United States designed to sembly on September 18. Mr. for meeting places, etc." and To you who have given us they' left a definite impression officer who desires to avoid ciation with Pqter I and his heavy contribution of treqpsrto arouse hostility between the oming\fiitoJ40nfhfct| with oth-£thdee Bfyye Palamarchuk is< as everyone peoples as one of the obj^p- j youth give' !tbat, they were seriously con trouble would be lax in seeing • • his wars,,was not-only highly unpopular.with the-йарошаЬіав- er Ukrainian youth haying heir thi knows, ithe. Minister< of Foreign tives pf the cold war. I have their, and .will not let sidering the cancelation of their to it that the members Ггв- Kozaks. but ateo 'misleading. for the Ukrainian- peopjec B*t МГаігн of the Ukrainian SS.R similar inteoedts,- ;ai)d prpbt TOO; d UNA .membership. This is not ceive them promptly.. v;vr 1 Jtoi mina ,so candid and' un lems. 65 years ago we did not although Mazepa was) In a formal alliance wlth-Muscovy, he Obvernmcnt in Kiev, and as friendly an a^t'on the, pail Let us keep,in mind a signi knew that isooneri or later he would have'to- oreak1 awory -frbm suqh'.would be cxpec't'efl to give have thte! 1 •'''-, u*1 ?ШОІ ficant fact—it ia the member.• i i, of the influential circles of - MoecW. and' Challenge" its domfa&lon^ tin\i' iHtcr^rencc Tn Prominence in Hie atfdfess to the United States es>'! iM , Soyuzivka» its resort facili Letter to the Editor: who is important All who- , Ukraine, eo'trhen 4n£ vietrtrimis'armies'6f КІпЙ'^ШгІед X4tf foreign matters. Ha heads, the adopt і on iby-the United ties, the tennis courts, the soc- have positions, from the UNA / approached trre borders 'bt 0jbtaInfe?1ttCi^ ^fl|ftr tiffijmt^ lUkrainiarV'SSR ЧЙЙЮ'оп'І His States Congress of- the ш> IlLil г 4. J і • VYNNYTSIA: ONE OF N. KHRUSHCHEV'S CRIMES Supreme President to the sec men!"of'great decision Шіі'согЛеС Address was delivered' in a torioud resolution calling for < retary of the smallest branch, clear voice, in the Rusbwn lanr the liberation, mind you, < ai і riut4'that in their pipes ant' f provide services ifor the, Щф His secret negotiations with' the Swedish King, through guagc but let us not hold,this smoke it In July, 1943. I visited'the mountains of Slovakia, then in ber. The member, is entitled,to, t he Polish'1 Ktrfg, SUuii&bw ^82^упя'И;"ітІіТТ^Тос'6п,' goTtTg* so-eallcd captive nations^ in against him, because transla cluding Ukraine. The, au '"Let those who are nur- town of Vynnytshv not far ГAugust of 1944 they organised! services and the officersч*гщ-- on for several' moriths, and kepi' so hidden that lye,filial,-step r tion is provided for only, five thors of the resolution,^by*a !"turing plans for the explo- rom the eastern part of my [the bloody putch against the obliged to serve him. was no less a shock to: Peter Ґ than,it,wasto tjb^q гаро,годЬЦп official languages and Russian stroke of the peri, create oh j Ration of German militarism native Slovakia. For four days Slovak Government and shotl • •' ' I — ; Kozalje. Hie final decision came vary late, according Uj.Ukfiainian is one of them.' Mr. Palamar the map of the USSR some to launch a new war not I had have the opportunity to hundreds and thousands of historians, and^ his, long hesitation provided confusion among the chuk, as well as othet mem sort of new geographic con і forget the edifying lessons іее six mass graves of the Slovak anti-Cammunists. All UKRAINIAN Ukrainian people executed by Ukrainians, especially the,Zaporozhian Kozaks, -and.-.gave the bers of hie delegation, speaks cepts, and then include them of the not too remote past. the people who declined to Nlkita Khrushchev's NKVD AMERICAN Czar, ,адх-opportunity to drain Ukraine of its troops. When the perfect Ukrainians - ' • in the list of countries which ;. In the past War the Ukrain- collaborate with .the Commu- people demonstrated agents. These people were nista were executed and many combined Ukrainian-Zaporozhiajn.foroes (3,000 troope"of Mazepa But for that "if" .this'"dele are to be subjected to 'lib* fy ' at side by side with all shot between 1939 and 1941 as of them buried in the mass NEWS and -8.000 Zaporozhian'Kozaket "who finally joined! therHetmun gate's stature' "would have eration'. the other peoples of the So I was told by the local Ukrain graves like those of Ukrain • Mykola Ponedilok, a against Moscow) united with the Swedish army, they could not grown in size for, was he not "I cannot help reminding viet Union, they were able ians. ians in Vynnytsia. At this and humorist, held a soiree on constitute a formidable striking force, as has been hoped for. speaking on behalf of 45 mil the distinguished but forget Friday, October 2, 1959 at the to take a stand and show I met dozens of men and wom time the German Armies came Together with 25,000 seasoned Swedish troops they were con lion people; his is no postage ful Senators, and likewise Ukrainian Literary Club in their true worth, to defend en who told me naked truth to Slovakia and the whole fronted by 65,000 Muscovite troops at Poltava, where they itamp country but that "if"— their advisers who come (themselves and their right slovak New York City, during which if Comrade Palamarchuk were from the ranks of traitors about Nikita's dictatorship inl territory was for six met defeat. While the majority of the Swedish troops perished to live as they deem fit- months a battlefield. In tbis he read a collection of his hu leader of a delegation from a to their own countries, that Ukraine. Many Ukrainian peo morous sketches entitled, or were taken prisoners, Mazepa, an aging man of 70 years, that is, the fraternal family ple were shot in Vynnytsia, action some 70,004) Slovaks succeeded in bringing the Swedish King to safety in Turkey, free sovereign nation, if he the Ukrainian people have of the peoples of the USSR." "The Army." were a member of a govern twice known the great joy of more of them died years were killed. where the great Ukrainian Hetman died shortly. before and thousands of the It was the beginning uf • A new executive board ment of a sovereign state (but liberation. It happened first He warned about the dan- of the Ukrainian Musical In The vengeance of the Czar was cruel and barbaric. He the world knows that this is in the days of the great so *gers of German militarism Ukrainians were deported to terrorist actions of the Rus Siberia and the Donets. sians in Central Europe follow stitute was elected at a meet ordered the wholesale murder and massacre of Mazepa's sup not the case). Ukraine has a cialist October Revolution, and. pointed out the ueeless- ing held recently In New York, porters and loyal Ukrainian patriots (in Baturyn, Mazepa's Minister of Foreign Affairs in and then it happened again ricss of the world taking under ed by the hanging tfie Presi I have in my memory seven dent of the Slovak' Republic City, with the'following fie* capital, Prince Mcnshikov. massacred 6,000Vnen, wiihMHj(,and r*}iss .-porsoA/ but the world when the fascist hordes were consideration the matter of r cases of Ukrainian wives and and many others in Slovakia, officers: Prof. Ihor Sonevyt- children as a sign of the Czar's "strong Kand")', and,Ukraine, kndws'lhat foreign affairs are booted out of our native Tibet, which is strictly a Chi daughters, who told me, that sky—director; Prof. M. Bailo- matters handled by Moscow land. The Ukrainian people nese problem. Hungary and Poland. Vyn was reduced to a mere province, although there wak Hetman their husbands and fathers nytsia repeated itself many va—vice director; Prof. I. Ne- Ivan Skoropadsky, whom Peter I ordered elected after Mazepa and not by Kiev.m The Ukrain are free, and their freedom These are the highlights of were deported at night. dilsky — secretary, and Prof. . ian S3R-ihsjB a.* Minister, of is guaranteed by the con times behind the Iron Curtain. went to the side of the Swedes- -Tfierc were others appointed- the address made by Mr. Pa And I remember more. The Therefore the Ukrainians and V. Hrudyn, in charge of the* hotmans (nakaxni hetmany), whose power was symbolic rather FinariCe "out all' matters of stitution of the Ukrainian lamarchuk and while he spoke same thing that happened in oretical subjects. The Institute Soviet Socialist Republic Slovaks don't like comrade than real, until the Hetman State was completely liquidated fiscal policy are handled by at length and touched on oth Vynnytsia in 1939-41, happened has 14 branches in 9 states. Moscow. The Ukrainian SSR and the constitution of the Nikita. by Catherine the Great in 1775. er matters, I do not propose to in Slovakia in 1944. The So Dr. Josef Paucb Sec'y General • In, the American musical has a„ Minister x>f Education USSR. We would advise the make any analysis of вате, Mazepa was one of Ukfcune'sT greatest statesmen.'-eod viet partisans were parashut- Slovak National Council journal, Piano Guild Notes for 'bu^t. all educitionial policies are self-appointed 'liberators' to as t say above. ed in the Spring of 1944 in the July-August 1939, there sp- leaders. He was educated, -knew several foreign language*; he Abroad, Middletown, Pa. • i. ' <*' ' j peared an editorial about the was a patron of Ukrainian arts and sciences; 'he (fared about life and artistic creativeness the development of Ukrainian schools, academies, artisanship THE ANNIVERSARY OF POLTAVA Union of Soviet Socialist Republics it concerned the efforts of Russia to of Prof. Roman Savytsky, for and industry; he introduced a humane system of courts, and with its capital in Moscow. Yet from By CLARENCE A. MANNING secure control of Poland, while France mer director and presently he built Ukrainian churches and monasteries. that time the claims of Ukraine to in made halting attempts to help the professor of the Ukrainian The Swedieh-Polish-Ukrainian alliance was ill-born, be (1) dependence have been steadily put for Poles. By that time the English had Musical Institute in New York cause all three states, Sweden, Poland and Ukraine, were in a The battle of Poltava, fought on before the walls of Vienna in 1683. ward and have received an ever widen more or less accepted the Russian ver City. • : „ • July 9, 1709, was one of the decisive That left only Moscow and Sweden. ing response, as the menace of Mos state of political weakness and disorder. The whole preceding sion of events in Eastern Europe and • Prof. Michael Hrushevsky, battles in Eastern Europe, for it chang Moscow wanted to annex and absorb cow to the free world increased. this could not be countered by any Pol Ukraine's foremost historian, century was riddled withi Polish-Ukrainian conflicts, and the ed the fate of half a continent. This Ukraine and blot out its identity. Swe At the time of Poltava, the great Polish-Muscovite partition of Ukraine (1667) was still fresh ish views for they like the Russians was honored ЬуЧЬе Shevchen- victory of Peter I over Charles XII of den was more liberal, for it was prima events taking place in Eastern Europe viewed the struggle of Ukraine and its ko Scientific Society on Satur in the memory of Ukrainians, and few believed that the Polish Sweden and Ivan Mazepa, the Hetman rily interested in making the Baltic could not be expected to arouse much aspirations with scant sympathy. King would truly help Ukraine. day, October 8, 1959 with-a of the Zaporozhian Host and Ukraine, Sea a Swedish lake. The Northern War interest in the twelve small British special conference devoted tb In Ukraine, after the defeat of Mazepa, his deeds, his built up Moscow into the Russian Em which broke out in 1700 pitted against colonies on the fringe of the Nprth A new period opened in the early decades of the nineteenth century but his scientific work. Dr. M. Sta- works, and indeed his memories were ruthlessly persecuted by pire and led inevitably to the creation each other Charles ХЛ, one of the Atlantic in North America. What in chiw spoke on the "The State in Moscow. The Russian Orthodox Church, upon order of the of that menace which today is con great military geniuses of Europe, and terest the colonists had in European this offered little better basis for an Historical Works" and in Pa Czar, cast an "anathema" upon Mazepa, whom it labeled a fronting the entire Western world and Peter L Mazepa in an effort to free affairs was occupied by the War of the appreciation of Poltava and the role triotic Activities of M. Hru "traitor." Mazepa's sympathizers and adherents were hunted to the adoption by Sweden of that his people from Russian domination Spanish Succession in which Sweden shevsky," and Dr. B. Roma- policy of neutrality which has com joined Sweden and when Charles was was a benevolent ally of France and of Mazepa than did the preceding and persecuted by Czarist agents for several years, just as nenchuk discussed "Michael plicated the formation of a joint de defeated at Poltava, he and Mazepa this dulled any religious feelings on the period of indifference. There was pub today Ukrainian patriots are being hunted and persecuted by Hrushevsky as я Literator and fense of the West against the Red Rus were compelled to flee Into Turkey. psrt of the colonists for Sweden, for lished in France the memoirs of Jan M MGB agents of the Kremlin. Historian of Literature. The sian menace. So it is only proper that The day of Sweden was oyer as a great the British with American assistance Chrysostom Passek, a Polish brawler conference, which'was held on But in the hearts of the Ukrainian people Mazepa was on its 250th anniversary, the world, power and the Swedes took their first were fighting In America what we know liar and a personal enemy of Mazepa the occasion of the 25th anni and remains one of the greatest Hermans and patriots. He in including the United States, should steps toward a policy of" absolute neu as Queen Anne's War which resulted in with whom he had had several un versary of Hrushevsky's death', spired a whole new generation of Ukrainian patriots who knew take note of it and consider seriously trality in the great political conflicts the British annexation of Nova Scotia. was presided by Dr. V. Kalyna, that Ukraine must wage a struggle to gain its freedom and its full significance. in Europe. The way was open for Peter The colonists had not yet awakened to pleasant encounters at the Polish j,vice-president o&the Shevchen* independence. In the seventeenth century, the four to turn the almost land-locked state of a sense of their own individual charac court. Passek never spoiled a good eto- ter and appeared to be more English KO Scientific Society. In commemorating toHay the great son of Ukraine, we great, neighbors of Ukraine, Moscow, Moscow into the Russian Empire, to ry and he took his revenge on Mazepa break through a window to Europe, than the English themselves. So any • The 80th anniversary of must also realize that even 250 years aô Mazepa knew the Sweden, Poland and Turkey, were struggling for supremacy and each in ultimately to divide and annex most of opinion that they might have had was by telling the tale of Mazepa's ride, Prof. Volodymyr Doroshenko, danger of Russia to Europe, and know that it must be check its own way looked on Ukraine as an Poland and to deliver fatal blows to that of London and not that of Paris when the young man was bound naked noted Ukrainian literary critic ed, if the rest of Europe had to remain free. ally or a fantastically wealthy object the Ottoman Empire. It was not until or any country where Orlyk as the suc to an untamed horse which was mad and librarian, was observed on The idea of a Swedish-Polish-Ukrainian coalition was a Saturday, October 5, 195& by for seizure. Two lost out before the end World War I that Ukrainb had an op cessor of Mazepa and the other Ma- dened to satisfy an unidentified hus forerunner of things to come. Soviet Russia today, as that portunity to make another bid for in zepyntsi were trying to continue the the Ukrainian Literary and of the century. Poland was weakened band's jealousy. Passek made no at of Peter I, looms again as an aggressive and enslaving power, by the revolt of Hetman Khmelnytsky dependence and then the young Ukrain struggle for Ukrainian freedom. In Artistic Club of Philadelphia, and a new coalition of free men must challenge her again, in 1648, when Ukraine became again a ian National Republic was soon sub terest in European affairs other than tempt to give the date or place of the where 60 persons paid tribute sooner or later, if the free world is to remain out of Russian free state. Turkey was compelled to merged by the Russian Communists in Anglo-French relations began only episode which was obviously a canard. to this exceptional and inde- 'atlgable Ukrainian literary clutches and fetters. draw back after Its crushing defeat and turned into a mere adjunct of the in the middle of the century and then (To be continued) і worker. - No. 196 SVOBODA, UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1959 3