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Nazi agents, by intrigue and radio propagandizing, have agitated for a Greater Ukraine ever since Munich. Centre of the campaign is Carpatho-Ukraine, easternmost district of Nazified Czecho-Slovakia. Hungary and Poland also covet the strategic Carpatho-Ukraine, and there have been border fights on both frontiers of the territory...
What took place on the Carpatho-Ukrainian border last week, however, was no mere guerrilla scrap but several minor military actions and one small, desperate, pitched battle. The suspicion was that these were instigated by Germany and, besides being a warning to Hungary to lay off, were possibly the Nazis' first violent move toward setting up the nucleus of the Greater Ukrainian State...
Autonomous status for the province of Slovakia was provided by a bill which the Chamber passed and the Senate will approve this week. The Chamber likewise approved an autonomy measure for the third part of the federated Republic, Carpatho-Ukraine (formerly Ruthenia). Meanwhile, Polish and Hungarian bands, still hoping to split the province between their nations, last week crossed its borders and carried on terrorist attacks against the Government...
Last week in Pittsburgh this old battle was once more raging. Its centre was the person of the fat, gimlet-eyed, Carpathian-born bishop of the Carpatho-Russians, Rt. Rev. Basil Takach. Sent to the U. S. in 1924, Bishop Takach had won instant approval by ordaining married men to the priesthood. But in 1929 another apostolic letter was issued by the Vatican, this one forbidding bishops to appoint married priests to Greek Rite posts. Bishop Takach obeyed the order, but in Bridgeport, Conn., a priest dared not only oppose it but circularized Greek Catholic churches to stir up more...
Last week, Bishop Takach, sitting tight in his episcopal residence in smoky Munhall, Pa., had a full-fledged revolt on his hands. Father Chornock was named bishop of a new, dissident faction, to be called the Carpatho-Russian Greek Catholic Diocese of the Eastern Rite, U. S. A. Bishop-elect Chornock's diocese was born when 36 of Bishop Takach's priests petitioned him to appeal the second papal order. Father Chornock and five other clergy were excommunicated by the Vatican. By last week their faction had grown to include 40 parishes, drew 300 lay and clerical delegates...