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...shipyard. His teen-age daughter Mary and son Bill had steady jobs also with the Canadian National Railways. They had plenty to eat and a cozy home, had even saved some money. And Canada had made them feel at home, had even encouraged them to keep alive their Ukrainian customs...
First Doubts. Soon he too began to feel queasy. As a young state-supported engineering student, he declares, he fell in love with the wife of "one of the most important officials in the Ukrainian government." People in general were suffering and starving. But Julia Mikhailovna and her husband were as rich and well-fed as the Romanovs: "oriental rugs on the floor, tapestries and paintings, crystal chandeliers." Julia herself deplored the contrast. "You may not believe me," she said, "but I am opposed to all this gluttony of the leaders." Kravchenko begged her to reform, to flee with...
Pigs & Dignity. Russian officials more than fulfilled their promise to give the UNRRA mission full freedom of movement and inspection in carrying out the $189 million relief program. In fact, Russian solicitude was sometimes embarrassing. A Ukrainian peasant and his wife, assigned to clean the mission's Kiev offices, parked a pig in the garden. Officials thought this an affront to UNRRA's dignity, ordered the pig removed. The UNRRA workers said they did not mind the pig. The officials insisted. So the peasant gave the legal two weeks' notice, walked out with his wife...
...Ukrainians did not want to leave. Thousands of them took to the hills under the leadership of a man whom all Galicia calls "The Colonel"; he is said to be a former German SS officer. As Poles, evicted from land in the north taken over by Russia, came into Galicia, the Ukrainian bands raided villages, tossing flaming brands on straw-thatched roofs. The Ukrainians aped the nations by demanding impossible reparations; from little Bukowsko they demanded one million zlotys. When the 3,000 villagers raised only 300,000 zlotys, the raiders burned all but eleven of Bukowsko...
...request. Recently the State Department had asked eight Governments to allow full and impartial coverage of UNRRA's work. (UNRRA has just gone to work in the Ukraine.) Even if the Soviet censors open a branch office at Kiev, as they doubtless will, the press would welcome the Ukrainian move. A second window into Russia might not give sufficient cross-ventilation, but it would at least give a change of scenery...