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MRS. SPAFFORD ATTENDS UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM Pictured at the 51st anniversary of Ukrainian independence and 50th an niversary of the union of Ukrainian lands observance, held at the Carnegie Endowment International Center, New York City, on January 25, s r e y D r . Lev E. Dobriansky, president of Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, whicih sponsored the program; Mrs. Belle Spafford, newly elected presi dent of the National Council of Women of U. S., on his left; Mrs. Stef'ania Pushkar, UNWLA president and NCW Migration Chairman, on his right; Mrs. Mayala Miltenberger, Mrs. Stafford’s administrative assistant, first from left; and Mrs. Mary Dushnyck, UNWLA public relations chairman, who represented Women for Freedom, Inc. Chornovil, Vyacheslav. The Chomovil Papers. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1968. Pp. 246. The Soviet constitution prom ises all the citizens o f the USSR the freedoms o f speech, press and assembly; the soviet legal codes attem pt to provide a fram ew ork of orderly life w ith in bounds of the “ socialist legal ity .” B u t in a country which pro. motes a schizophrenic concep tio n o f re a lity, where hypocrisy is the established policy — woe to h im who takes the communist theory seriously. In the fa ll of 1965 Vyacheslav Chornovil, a 27-year old U krainian jo urn alist, was assigned to cover the tria ls o f a number o f U krainian in te l lectuals. A t the tria ls he was outraged by the blata nt disre gard fo r legality, by the rid icu lous accusations, by the chauvi n istic discrim ination o f the Rus sians against all things U k ra in ian. The accused were trie d and convicted in secret tria ls fo r reading or possessing nonSoviet U krainian publications, fo r non- Soviet in terpretation o f works by Shevchenko, f o r th e ir de mands o f a compulsory in struc tio n o f U krainian children in the U krainia n language. Chornovil wrote a lengthy pe titio n to the public prosecutor o f the U k ra in ian SSR pointing to the “ wanton disregard o f socialist le g a lity” in order “ to prevent a repetition (under d iffe re n t labels) o f the te rro r o f the th irtie s which bled the U krainia n people w h ite and reduced U krainia n statehood to a fic tio n ” (p. 75). — Today, V ya cheslav Chornovil is him self a v ic tim of the “ socialist le g a lity ” : convicted on November 15, 1967 he is serving his prison sentence o f three years o f hard labor. H is petitions and appeals on behalf o f the u n ju s tly convicted U kra in . ian intellectuals, however, to gether w ith the documentary m aterials about them th a t he compiled, are circulating fre e ly both in the East and West. They circulate in hand-w ritten copies in U k ra in e ; they were smuggled a few pages at a tim e out o f the Soviet Union. The publication of The Chornovil Papers in English created quite a s tir in the West ern world. N o t only is th is the most im portant book to come out of Ukraine in recent years; i t is also a profoundly moving hu man document which testifies to the great moral and physical courage o f the new generation o f U krainian intellectuals, to th e ir great sense of d u ty and respon s ib ility to th e ir nation. N E W COMMISSIONS Commissions are being formed fo r all Executive Board chair manships. The Commissions are designed to aid the chairmen o f the various committees in th e ir work. A t the present tim e Cul tu ra l, Educational and Home Ec onomics Commissions have come in to being. They are head ed by Mesdames: N atalia Chap- lenko, Olena Klym yshyn, and Irene Kashubynska. * * * The C ultural and Home Econo mics Commissions prepared questionnaires on Christmas dishes and customs which were sent out to all Branches in Octo. ber. On the basis of the in form a tio n received U N W L A w ill pre pare a booklet o f Christmas dish, es and trad ition s in the various parts o f Ukraine. A sim ilar ques tionnaire is now being prepared on Christmas recipes. * * * Many U N W L A Branches sent Christmas greetings and pack ages to U krainia n boys serving in Vietnam. Most o f these Branches report having received moving letters fro m the young soldiers thanking the ladies fo r th e ir kindness and generosity. A leader sees things through the eyes of his followers. A lead er puts himself in their shoes, and helps them make their dreams come true.
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