The Ukrainian Weekly 1942

SVOBODA [Український Щоденник Ukrainian Daily РІК L Ч. 227. VOL. L. No. 22*?. SECTION II. Шіе ШЬшшп Dedicated to the needs and interests of young Americans of Ukrainian descent. No. 41 JERSEY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1942 VOL. X NOVEMBER 1, 1918SENYSHY N CONSECRATED BISHOP CHICAGO. — Amid the glitter of papal decree confirming the consecra candles on gold-embroidered vest- tion, to be read in three language Twenty-four years ago late tonight, stirring events were ! ments, and to the beautiful harmo- during the ceremony. taking place ОП the Streets Of war-weary Lviw. Acting swiftly I nies of massed "choirs, the Most Rev Archbishop Stritch, who presided, and Silently, and Under the authority Of the newly-established | Ambrose Senyshyn, O.S.B.M.. was marched toward the end of the pro cession, his raised hand frequently Ukrainian National Assembly, Ukrainian war veterans and! consecrated Thursday October 22. forming the Sign of the Cross, at , . ZA M • i_ -u" J J.I_ і titular bishop of the Maine and aux- which the massed spectators on the armed volunteers were occupying the mam buildings and other jiliary of tne Ukrainian catholic Dio- curbs bowed. strategic points of this ancient capital of Western Ukraine, j cese of the United states. The cere- For the actual consecration, the The oppressive power of the disentegrating AustrO-Hungarian I mony, blending Byzantine and Latin monarchy was ПО longer able to Stop them. And just before \ rites- was performed for the first time j bishop-elect was led to an image of daybreak, a young student, Stephen Pankiwsky, climbed the in this^°unt7- _. • , Jan eagle, beneath whose feet were Hrv Ьяіі'с hi<rh rnwpr and thprp faqtpnpd thp Ukrainian vpllow j AccordmA & t0 the local Press- StQ . j depicted a city and a river—symbols City halls high tower ana Uiere tastenea Uie икгатіап yeilOW f Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church,! of the Byzantine liturgy. The eagle and blue banner. Flaming in the rays of the rising sun it pro-, Oakley blvd. and Rice St., was be- represented the depth of the newly Claimed that after centuries of foreign subjugation and Struggle j decked with bunting in the national I consecrated bishop's theological red for freedom, a nation had been reborn, that Western Ukraine - white and blue and also in blue' learningto which; tht^iee cit bishoy denotep isd calledthat ,wor ankd had at last become free and independent. f* ^ ™e buntins /"^Т6? the river represented the grace of F - • • і from pillar to pillar, led to the bnl- the doctrine. The consecrator, Bishop Constan- Such were the events that ushered the Western Ukrainian: палсе 0f the altar itself—past the Republic into the family Of free nations twehty-four years ago. I massed somberness of black cassocks, krainian Greek Catholic diocese of Beginning tomorrow and lasting throughout 'the rest of the: through the scarlet and purple mass I tine"Bohachevsky,' head of the Uk- that was the s b h a d the United States, was assisted by month, patriotic Ukrainians the world over will observe the j . ?*? °[ * T. " ' Bishop Basil Takach, head of the ' * •» .ш_ •. ~w~, ,ТГІ_ , j \ monsignon, and then to the bright- Greek Rite Catholics of persons of anniversary of that date. Where, however, war and enemy |ness *f the ntmct^ym There *ere Rusin, Croatian and Hungarian an cestry, and by Bishop Vladimir La- occtjpation will not permit it, as in Ukraine itself, they will at j White and gold robes of the officiat- dyka, O.S.M.B., head of the Ukrain |east pay Silent homage to it. jing clergy and the glow of many- rm d (ian lab a playing upon high ian Greek Catholic diocese of Canada. No doubt, it may strike some as rather strange that this * ]f , frf ^ ' ba ed golden flowers The Rev. Desmond A Schmal, S.J., date, November 1, 1918, should still have inspirational qualities | *? - # _ , , preached. Monks of the Order of St. • ' ^^ . , . .. L~ The ceremony, reports Michael Basil, in the procession, were followed today. Of what use observing its anniversary, some may say,jKozak was attended by two arch- by Archbishop Stritch, Archbishop when the Ukrainian freedom gained then, was short-lived and j bishops, thirteen bishops of the La Francis Beckman of Dubuque, Arch is no longer in existence today, and when the Ukrainians are tin and Byzantine rite, fifteen mon- bishop Moses E. Kiiey of Milwaukee, under the tyranny of the Nazis. |signori, a Benedictine abbot, more and the following bishops: Henry Al- with Ukrainian history, they would readily understand why, In thoff of Belleville, Henry P. Rohl ~ , ,., , , , Я[\ v. • i-x.. •, t than 300 priests and monks of the November 1, 1918 is SO inspiring to the Ukrainia A n people, even j mony, tiny girls, with flowers wreaths man of Davenport, Joseph" H. Schlar now Sucwheh na nthei attitudr native mae lany sound had splausible been terribl, buty i ndevastate reality itd habys BasUiaand whitn e£ deveilsr , anwerd ethoU8and followesd obf y man of Peoria, Joseph E. Ritter of nwao rbasis and .i s Werbeineg thosmaltreatee whod thinso mercilesslk that way yb ybette the rNazis acquainte. Thedy acolytesfaitnful , in gold and blue, then by Indianopolis, Paul C. Schulte of Leav would realize that what gives it this quality is the fact that 300 priestsa processio, monsignorn befori ane d thmembere ceres- enworth, George J. Rehring of Cin of the Catholic hierarchy. cinnati, Sidney Metzger of El Paso, for centuries the Ukrainians had been subjected to an unpre As reported in the local press, four Bernard T. Espelage, O.F.M., of cedented oppression and denationalization, rigorous and cruel men in morning clothes carried gilded Gallup, N. N{ex., Francis J. Magner enough to have obliterated from the face of this earth any barrels of salt and trays of bread, of Marquette and William D. O'Brien, ordinary nation; and yet when so slim an opportunity presented part of the symbolism of the cere auxiliary bishop of Chicago. itself at the close of the World War, the Ukrainians rose to mony. Beside this bishop-elect walked A reception and dinner at the Drake it, strong in their national consciousness and confident in their a cleric, bearing on a silver tray the Hotel followed the ceremony. national destiny, cast out their oppressors and established their pwn independent and democratic state. Added to all this, the Paris Peace Conference, yielding to This striking achievement, it should be borne in mind, French pressure, made decision after decision favoring the was in no wise dimmed by the events that followed. For al Poles and disfranchising the Ukrainians. though the Ukrainians were unable to retain their newly-won Before these great odds the Western Ukrainians, their national freedom, it was little fault of their own. Their re- ranks decimated by typhus, had to gradually give way, just public found itself attacked savagely on all sides by powerful I as in Eastern Ukraine, in the Ukrainian People's Republic, enemies, especially Poland, 'that latter had also just gained j which had risen earlier and with which the Western Ukrain- her independence, thanks largely to the efforts of President j ian Republic had united on January 22, 1919, their kinsmen Woodrow Wilson, who declared that a Polish state should be j were also giving way before hordes of the Reds and Whites set up within its ethnographic boundaries. Despite this just I and other enemies. Thus in the end,—after a sanguinary and limitation, however, the newly resurrected yet already greedy merciless war which, in the words of Winston Churchill (in his Polisn state quickly encroacheofupon Ukrainian ethnographic history of war in Eastern Europe then) defied precedent and territories, and when met with determined resistance engaged beggared description, a war characterized by bloody raids, af- in a war of aggression against their populace. frays and massacres, involving tens of thousands of men, a .'There is little doubt that the Ukrainians, despite their war of horrible persecutions wreaked upon the Ukrainian lack of war materials, would have driven off their ancient enemy people by one enemy or another,—the Ukrainians lost their and retained their independence, and thereby perhaps have in independence and fell under the misrule of their post-war op sured more enduring peace in Eastern Europe, if to the support pressors. of the Poles had not come French help, including equipment, Although they lost, however, they lost honorably, and arms. ammunition,«tanks, planes, and even officers. they emerged from that holocaust with stronger national con Already overloaded, the scales of this warfare turned de sciousness and firmer conviction that no amount of oppression finitely in favor of the Poles when to their aid there also ar and denationalization will ever break their spirit, and tliat, rived General Haller's Army, consisting mostly of Polish- furthermore, given the chance, they will once more rise and American volunteers, recruited to fight the Reds but actually reassert their determination to establish their own free and used to destroy the democratic aspirations of the Ukrainians, j independent and democratic Ukraine. UKRAINIAN WEK£LY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1942 No. tt "i ' • •• gg-'J- ' '" SOVIET UKRAINIAN VILLAGE BEFORE Youngstown (immunity Aids lit War ?HE WAR By ANNE NORTON / ГОНЕ 5,000 people of Ukrainian de- and donates half its proceeds from 4N interesting description of в vil» are out of use and deemed old-fash • scent in Mahoning Valley mig picnics and parties to the Red Cross lage in Soviet Ukraine just be ioned. The men commonly wear rated to America from the western and USO.

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