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THE WORLD GAZED UNCARINGLY AT THE DEATH OF MILLIONS In 1932-33, the Soviet Regime annihilated 7 million Uk rainian by starvation. Although the Bolsheviks denied the existence of the famine, many journalists wrote of it in the European and American press. The Western govern ments knew of the tragedy: The League of Nations had a closed meeting in September of 1933 in regard to the famine, the English Parliament inquired as to the situa tion, the 73rd Congress in Washington approved a resolution on April 28, 1934 as to the matter. Yet despite all this, no actions were taken, there were no moral sanctions and, in 1934, The Soviet Union was admitted into the League of Nations. After World War II, war criminals were put on trial and punished for the Jewish Holocaust; war criminals are still being hunted and tried today. Volumes upon volumes were written of the Holocaust. Those who executed the famine in Ukraine have never been put on trial; their names are all but un known. Historians write only about the economic hard ships of the day, never mentioning the staged famine. On this 50th anniversary of the famine, Ukrainians in the free world are attempting to document the tragedy, collecting formal documents and memoirs of eyewitnesses, by writing historical works. The Ukrainian women in Halychyna and in the free world became involved in the community effort and utilized their resources in helping the starving people. The National Ukrainian Women’s Council of Europe in Prague compiles an appeal to all nations “to turn their attention to the tragic conditions in Ukraine and, through the International Red Cross, to come to its aid.” The Ukrainian Women’s League in Lviv called upon women throughout the world for their support and as sistance. In November of 1933, the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America in New York formed an Emergency Relief Committee, with Dr. Nellie Pelecovich as Chairman. The Committee disseminated information about the famine in Ukraine and asked for the inter vention of the American government, as well as collect ing funds for the needy. The Committee published a brochure “The Ukrainians Accuse the Government of Soviet Russia,” from which excerpts follow: 6 . Of deliberately killing millions of the Ukrainian popula tion, by starving them to death under the pretext of Ukrainian opposition to the Soviet plan of Pyatiletka. (Five Year Plan of economic building.) 8 . The Soviet organs here, in America, hire common thugs to combat any attempt of the Ukrainians to lay their cause before the American public. Disrupting Ukrainian meetings, beating Ukrainian marchers, assaulting Ukrainian girls and women, are forerunners of the Bolshevist “paradise” in America. And the only warning they give to the American public is by repeating the words of Will Durant in his book "Tragedy of Russia" (published 1933). Let the Liberals of Europe and America be warned. If by their support a despotism of this kind is established in western Europe or America, they will be the first victims of its savage power... And if some philanthropist would help this generation, let him send the communist leaders of America to live in Russia, in order that they may know and tell of what a paradise it is to which they offered their martyrdom." A memorandum was also written. Excerpts follow: “During the past year several millions of the inhabitants of Ukraine under the Soviets have died from actual starvation,"so reports Professor Richard Sallet of Northwestern University of Chicago. The existence of this terrible famine in Ukraine has been repeatedly proven by the leading European and American press. It is impossible, of course, to give the exact figures as to the total number of deaths arising from this great famine, principally because of the rigid censorship in Soviet Russia. Nevertheless, it will be sufficient for us to affirm the well authenticated reports of impartial American and European newspaper correspondents. Although we are grief stricken at the realization that millions of our kinsmen have starved to death, and other millions are facing the same terrible doom, yet, of particular horror to us is the shocking condition of the children of Ukraine, whose tender years are no defense to the cruelty of the Bolshevik oppressors of the Ukrainian people. Perhaps no other children have suffered so terribly and for such a long period of time. Carveth Wells, in his recent book, the “Kapoot", states: “We happened to be passing through the Ukraine and the Caucasus in the very midst of the famine in July, 1932. From the train windows, children could be seen eating grass. The sight of small children with stomachs enormously distended is not uncommon in Africa or other tropical countries, but this was the first time I had seen white children in such a state." We, American women of Ukrainian descent, on behalf of these children and starving kinsmen, appeal to your sense of justice and humanity to intercede on behalf of these millions of starving Ukrainians; and furthermore, we apeal to you to prevail upon the American Red Cross to establish a Red Cross base in Ukraine which shall serve as a medium of help sent by peoples throughout the world. UKRAINIAN NATIONAL WOMEN’S LEAGUE of America (Mrs.) Helen D. Lototsky, President EMERGENCY RELIEF COMMITTEE (Miss) Nellie Pelecovich, Chairman (Mrs.) Petrunella Kostetski, Secretary The brochure and Memorandum were enclosed in letters sent to President Roosevelt, his wife Eleanor, the American ambassador in Moscow, the International Red Cross, The American Red Cross, Senators and Congressmen, the American press and churches of all denominations. Robert F. Kelley,State Department, Chief, Division of Eastern European Affairs, responded for the President.* The Committee also received a response from the American Red Cross.** UNWLA members, with the assistance of many Ukrainian churches, conducted numerous collections and lotteries in order to help the starving people of Ukraine. Their action were constantly thwarted by the НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, ЖОВТЕНЬ 1983 23
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