Conservation of a People
DENNEN, LEON
Conservation of a People By LEON DENNEN THE UKRAINE: A SUBMERGED NATION. By William Henry Chambe.l,,, Th* MacmiUan Company. $1.75. \nrm j ILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN, one of our most consistent...
...Harper and Brother...
...Freud and Franldyn D.x By NAT GLICK WHAT'MANNER OF MANt By Noel F. Butch...
...Thst is to say, if one applies the correct procedure, the mystery will vanish snd an answer will be substituted...
...Banner Publication By ROBERT PARK MILLS IIRIARCLIFF QUARTERLY...
...But as Matthieasen, who i* fully aware of ths counts thst csn be msde sgsinst James, takes care to point out, he developed within those narrow bounds an art rich in ita implications for daily living, often based on an essentially poetic pattern of metaphor...
...The cruelty with which the CPU...
...THE MAJORPH A SE...
...Dealing with the charge that the novelist wss undemocratic, Matthieasen argues that the very functioning of democracy depends on a dayby-day apprehension of the difficult sad complex relations that obtain even among people at their best Ths Appendix contains "The Painter's Sponge snd Varnish Bottle," an essay which appeared In Its original form in The American Bookman...
...It is as a psychological analyais that this book make* ita special eppeal...
...Using advisers a* tutor-substitutes, Roosevelt prefer* oral personality type* to man of action, and likee to get even text* book information by way of conversation...
...Ralston Crawford does two line drawings, both striking in their compact symbolism...
...exterminated them exceeds all imagination...
...The first dsys of the •-•tober Revolution witnessed the rise da number of Soviet national rapublics **- autonomous territories...
...Although Mr...
...longer subject to politicel dictation from Moscow, united with other peoples of the Soviet Union only by voluntary bonds of mutual economic interests, is sn indiipensibls element in s free Europe snd in s free . world...
...Such work is bringing these novels to the attention of those who can best appreciate them...
...In 1984, however, after the Kirov assassination, Stalin instituted s new, unofficial netional policy...
...This sort of strsamlined psychoanalysis hst s wsy of picking up neglected insights snd ovsrworking them because the writer forgets thst thsy srs only partial explsnations...
...Busch's second ace-in-thehole...
...FOLLOWING World War I and the condmion of the Treaty of Versailles, the nssO European nations gained their in* --^•uilince...
...189 pagt...
...Methodically, in a typical Stalinist fashion, he began to "liquidate" the most important leaders of the various national republics...
...Chamberlin passes over the question, ajafltl ll historisns cannot aa yet agree whether Ehmelnitaky was a bandit, a liberator or both...
...He suddenly discovered that the national republics were nests of Trotakyist-Bukhariniat agents and his desdly enemies...
...By F. 0. Mathittten...
...In the meantime, the main victims of this dispute are the long-suffering Ukrainian people...
...The fact is, however, thst even though during the pset ten centuries las Ukrainian people have undergone a multitude of severe trisls, they nevertheless have been able to con serve a large part of their territorial, ethnographic and cultural identity...
...It is no secret that the Ukrainians, whose voice has as yet not been heard in the high international councils, would also like to benefit by the Atlantic Charter and to regain—possibly in the system of an East European Federation—some measure of independence after this war...
...Having reached this new all-time high in complacency, Mr...
...To feel st home in ths midst of great events does not in itself constitute great behavior...
...The suthor knows an exciting or interesting fact from a stolid one, and he seems to be under* s compulsion to avoid dullness...
...Ivory-Tower Democrat By EDWARD HESS HENRY JAMBS...
...Before embarking on hi* analysis, the author pauses to lay low th* recurrent "myth of the mystery of the human personality: "If any mystery at all exists about the human character, it is largely the kind of mystery which a multiplication problem might present to someone who did not know erithmetic...
...There were thirty-two million Ukrsinians in the prewar Soviet Union, from five to six million in Poland snd about two million in Bessarabia, Bukovina and Ruthenia—the Carpathian eastern provinces of Czechoslovakia...
...It is a simple matter of research and common "sense...
...During their long subjugation the Ukrainians fought courageously and doggedly for their land and freedom...
...60 centt...
...1944...
...ThIS is an ingenious, frivolous, st times penetrsting little book...
...The greatest victim was the Ukrainian "Republic...
...Here it is most suggestive and most suspect...
...but under* standing, unfortunately, is s more complicated phenomenon than objectivity, Basically, "What Manner of Man...
...The revolt of Hetman Ivan Mazeppa against Peter the Great in 1709 (remembered largely in the West because of the epic poem Byron wrote about him) was the last major attempt of the Ukrainians te regain their independence...
...ALL the editorisl work on this literary magszine is dona by Mi iai cliff L student* under the supervision of Norman Macleod, the poet snd novelist It contains much good work by established writers, as well ss opening th* gates to talented new writers...
...nrm j ILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN, one of our most consistent champions of the W »ni«ll nstions of Europe, haa written a concise and objective history of the ?*-» Ukraine which should do much to bring ita sad fate to the attention of democratic Americans...
...Some were exiled ¦ to Siberia...
...Here Matthieasen defends and explains the revisions which James in later life made In hit earlier work...
...Franklin was her only son snd she nutured hit ego with sffaction snd attention...
...others, like Skrypnik, committed suicide...
...When some of our pro-Russian newspaper columnists and radio commentators, in their indecent haste to please Stalin, are only too ready to "grant" him a slice of Polsnd, they seem to forget—they are probably too ignorant to know—that the territory eaat of the so-called Curzon Line belongs neither to Russia nor to Poland but to the millions ^pf Ukrainians who inhabit it...
...The institution.of the tutor in young Franklin'* schooling is mad* to explain a variety of adult trsits...
...Throughout ths book, the author, far from taking the air of the special pleader, is occasionally even rather severe with his subject in an appropriately Jamesian way...
...Based on painstaking research, Th* Ukraine: A Submerged Nation ¦ft also an eloquent plea on behalf of forty million Ukrainians, the most numerous peep!* In Europe, as Mr...
...An article by Ordwey Teed, Chsirman of the Beard ef Trustees of BttareiaT, seta forth the educational principle) that students in the isolation of ths college csmpus tend to dissociate what they lesrn inside the cloistered halls from their lifs in the world When students enter into work, projects such as the Quarterly, book-learning is focused snd - educstion becomes constructivs and useful...
...It an entertainment, not a serious study, The book hst yet to b* written thst putt Roosevelt in hit niche In world history...
...Roosevelt'* special attachment to hit mother is Mr...
...2.50...
...A free Ukrsine, no...
...As Chamberlin points out, 'There is a Ukrainian language, a Ukrainian cuius*, a Ukrainian historical tradition...
...New York, Oxford Pre...
...Busch proceeds to simplify Roosevelt'* psychology...
...of historical, geographic and mili•sy reasons, the Ukrainian state soon -»**ms an involuntary "member" of the '¦"Men of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...Hit poi trait dispensee, largely, with the categories of approval and disapproval...
...Democratic Ukrainians are not at all happy ovef the fact that the non-Slav Stalin has donned the mantle of the protector of the Slavs and speaks in their name...
...Before passing judgment again they would do well to consult The Ukraine: A Submerged Nation...
...Despite hit extrsvsgsnces, Mr...
...The adult Franklin found a mother-substitute in the United States electorate, whose affection he both sntlcipsted slid received...
...Busch is both intelligent snd discerning...
...he eventually restricted overt action to dialogue and expended his sentences and paragraphs into labyrinths of qualification and analysis...
...F. 0. Mathiessen has used four of these novels, The Ambattadort, The Wins* of the Dovi, The Golden Bowl, snd the unfinished Ivory rower, to document the thesis that the novelist In this "major phase" bad achieved final mastery snd srrived at that union of content and form which makes great art Mathiessen brings to his critical task both subtlety of expression and delicacy of perception...
...Ike Bolsheviks promised the Ukrsinians 'wnplete autonomy but thsy nsver hon•N their pledge...
...The vast majority of the Ukrainian people who lived under the Tsars were brutally oppressed...
...For a numbs...
...f The Ukrainian national problem, concludes Chamberlin, is closely linked with the triumph of democracy snd individusl liberty in the Soviet Union ss s whole...
...THOSE who dislike Henry James are sure to dislike tiki later novel* most of all...
...The Tssrist attitude towards Ukrainian independence was expressed with typical Muscovite brutality by Count Valuyev, Russian Minister of Interior, when he declared in 1863: "There never has existed, there does sot exist, and there can never exist a little Russian language and nationality...
...Briarcliff Junior College, Ottining, N. Y. January, 1945...
...naturally, Mstthlessens explanation, a part of his main thesis, differs from ths stock notion that James sullied hie own pages by removing light snd color snd substituting murky qualifications snd tiresome paraphrases...
...It wss Hetman Khmelnitsgy who first practiced extensively the ancient Ukrainian policy of the scorched esrth...
...They organized schools, t.heatree snd research institutes...
...As s biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it is brief and deft, benefiting from the New Yorker profile technique, and the file* of Time magszine where Mr...
...Chamberlin puts it, who are today "without a sovereign state form of organisation...
...The fset remains, however, that whereas Poland gained the Western Ukraine by the Soviet-Polish Riga peace treaty of 1921—Lenin himself agreed thst it wss s "voluntary and juat agreement that would last for all time"—Russis's claim to it ia based on the "Stalin-Hitler Pact ef 1339...
...Such a view finds its source in James' own restriction of subject snd method: the novelist drew his msin characters from one class of society, that possessing leisure snd money, and from one portion of that class, those endowed with sensibility, scruples, and a gift for self-expression...
...Only a plebeacite carried out freely under joint Anglo-American supervision could determine the true wishes of the inhabitants of the disputed territory...
...It waa once the fashion to deprecate James' work as a hullaballoo about nothing, a continual fussing'over-tempests in teapots...
...hsve ths actual thimble who is God Along among their marble* in a pocket...
...and From Birth, th* Beginning Sorrow, by Arthur O'Keefe: "And tears fell like eyelashes Before the eyes In steady waterfall...
...it csn not make them popular, for such work, partly dus to s kind of over-elaboration that has also touchsd such man as Joyce snd Mann, csn never be popular in th* cash-register tents...
...Gentries of sadness and oppression throb in the folklore, songs and literature of the Ukrainian people...
...languages snd national cultures that were dying out as a result of Tsarist oppression began to flourish once more...
...Most of the prominent Ukrainian Bolsheviks were executed during the purges...
...190 paget...
...Ths two poems I preferred were Children on a Doorttep, by Herbert Schsumsnn...
...Among the contributor* are Kenneth Patchen, Deny* Val Baker, Cornel do Jong, Weldoh Kees, Gaston Figueira, and two Briarcliff students...
...In later years those Ukrainians who lived in Galicia and in those parts of the Ukraine that were under the rule of the Austin Hungarian empire received some measure of political, and more especially cultural, autonomy...
...The literary criticism is excellently handled by Vlvienne Koch, Richard HofsUdter, Frank Jones, snd others...
...From 1750 on, Ukrainian independence lived merely is the hearts of its rebels and in the songs of its great bards...
...The Ukrainians, too, taking •"•vantage of the Russian Revolution, established for a brief period an independent Ukrainian Republic...
...He has made s distinguished addition to the increasing amount of sober, •olid critical work on James...
...Although day "ever achieved complete independ**» they did exercise in the beginning jP measure of national snd cultural ***-»-»y...
...There are three good short stories, snd ths poetry ranges from simple imagism in Parker to the rather over-Involved metaphysics of Joss Garcia Villa...
...Perhaps the most turbulent and hopeful period in the history of this submerged nation was the 1640's when Hetman Bogdsn Ehmelnitsky, leader of the military fraternity of freedom-loving Ukrainian aaaaseha (Zoporozhtfca Sieh) revolted against Polish domination and by the treaty of 1649 achieved a large measure af self-government fosfthia people...
...Butch work...
...Like tutors, Roosevelt's adviser* ars expendable according to whim and need...
...In his fight for freedom be murdered defenseless Jews and Poles, set fire to whole villages and pillaged ruthlessly the inhabitants of the cosatry...
...One of the most fertile areas in Europe, inhabited by a sturdy race passionately attached to the eoil, the Ukraine has long been a battleground of rival powers...
Vol. 28 • February 1945 • No. 7
