Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither the Vatican nor Archbishop Sheptytsky has pretended to be grateful for this exercise of Cuius regio. They well know that the Polish Government wishes to crush Ukrainian nationalist tendencies, centred in the churches, and also to stir up religious bitterness among the Ukrainians. In the latter aim it has succeeded. In a pastoral, suppressed by the Government but circulated (in English) in London and Manhattan last week, Archbishop Sheptytsky admitted that the destruction of Ukrainian churches had "cast the odium for what has transpired on the Apostolic See....A new abyss is being opened between the Eastern...
...Swedish press reports from Moscow. Stirred up by Young Communists, citizens of Pedobanya of the River Nemiljana started beating up Jews and attacking their homes. Moscow dispatched a commission of inquiry which reported that in the Ukraine there is "organized and fairly widespread" antiSemitism. In Kiev, the Soviet Ukrainian Capital, anti-Jewish riots were suppressed by Red Army troops...
...many cases in the following order: Premier Molotov; Heavy Industry Commissar Kaganovich; Defense Commissar Voroshilov; President Kalinin; Communist Party Central Committee Secretary Andreyev; Interior (Secret Police) Commissar Yezhov; Finance Commissar Chubar; Communist Party Central Executive Member Kosior; Leningrad Communist Leader Zhdanov; Vice Premier & Supply Commissar Mikoyan; President of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic Petrovsky; and Candidate x, locally prominent...
...established the first U. S. Greek Catholic diocese, sent Bishop Stephen Soter Ortynski to fill it and enforce the order. So incensed were the Uniats-claiming that by the Treaty of Ungvar in 1646 their clergy had been granted the right to marry before ordination - that Carpatho-Russian and Ukrainian members of the church snubbed the papal letter. It remained unenforced...
Meantime, the purge continued. In Moscow, V. I. Liubchenko, president of the People's Commissars Council of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic-one of U. S. S. R.'s seven autonomous republics-was reported to have committed suicide, an announcement which reminded some cynical U. S. newsgatherers that many a third-degreed prisoner slips getting into the patrol wagon...