Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstrations, anti-war parades, strikes, arguments, psychoanalysis, unfinished novels and unwritten poems, of stories, gossip, limitless ambition, ineffectuality, tolerance and intolerance. As is the case with most of the current memoirs, the details of Joseph Freeman's personal story are less interesting than their background. Born in a Ukrainian village of Jewish parents, he lived there long enough to remember a pogrom, was taken to the U. S. in 1904. Growing up in the poverty-stricken Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, he learned U. S. ways painfully, was beaten up by Irish boys, stumbled over the English language...
...humored and cajoled into aiding Communists whose aim is to forge a Socialist Soviet United States by violence and bring it into the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Washington would then stand in the same relation to Moscow as Kiev which today is the obedient capital of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic...
...such Uniat sect, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, two friends began laboring years ago. Nicholas Shumsky and Andrew Sarmatiuk took wives, each performing a marriage ceremony for the other. They went to Canada, a mission field of their church. Father Sarmatiuk begat two children. Used as they were to married priests in the old country, the Ukrainians whom they shepherded saw nothing unusual about the status of the two fathers. But Mother Church did. In her ponderous, methodical way she discovered that the marriages, respectively 20 and 14 years old, were invalid. Fathers Shumsky and Sarmatiuk had broken the rules...
...years ago Bishop Basil Vladimir Ladyka, resident in Winnipeg, commanded the errant fathers to petition the Vatican for a ruling on their cases. To the two small Ontario parishes where the two were settled-Oshawa (200 Ukrainian Catholics) and Brantford (400)- last week went reply. The fathers could remain in the priesthood by separating from their families, continuing, however, to support them. Otherwise the two would be unfrocked...
Husbands Shumsky and Sarmatiuk declined to give up their families. Mr. & Mrs. Shumsky took themselves off to a farm. Mr. Sarmatiuk said he was pondering going on relief. Commented sympathetic Ukrainian neighbors: "Poverty in the priesthood has less appeal than lay poverty, with a family for company...