SEVERAL THOUSAND UKRAINIANS TO MARCH IN PROTEST AGAINST KHRUSHCHEV
NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 15. - Several thousand Americans of Ukrainian descent are expected to march on Sunday, September 18, 1960, in peaceful protest demonstration against the arrival of Nikita S. Khrushchev to the United States, - the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America announced today.
The protest March, organized by the United Ukrainian American Organizations of Greater New York, a branch of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, will begin at 42nd Street and 5th Avenue at 3 P.M. on Sunday afternoon and will continue up Fifth Avenue to East 69th Street, where it will dissolve. The Marshal of the Ukrainian protest march will be Walter Steck, Esq., prominent Ukrainian American attorney and major in the U.S. Air Force (Res.).
Groups of other nationality organizations will also join the Ukrainian marches, as well as motorcade organized by American veteran groups.
In addition, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America announced that Ukrainian groups and organizations will join all-American protest demonstrations against Khrushchev and his communist puppets who are coming to New York to take part in the U.N. General Assembly session on Monday, September 19.
On Monday, September 19, 1960 the Ukrainian groups will join anti-Khrushchev pickets at the pier where the "Baltika" will dock with a retinue of his communist puppets, and at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where Khrushchev and Company will have their headquarters.
On Tuesday, September 20, 1960 the Ukrainian groups will join all-American pickets at the U.N. General Assembly session. The picketing at the United Nations is sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America appeals to all Americans to take active part in peaceful and dignified protest against Khrushchev and his subservient millions. In a leaflet, entitled, Khrushchev, Hangman of Ukraine, which will be distributed during the demonstrations, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America outlined the various crimes which Khrushchev committed while being a top communist ruler in Ukraine before and after World War II.
Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, September 17, 1960, No. 179, Vol. LXVII
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