Highlights from the UNA's 110-year history (05/09/04)

Highlights from the UNA's 110-year history

A special yearlong feature focusing on the history of the Ukrainian National Association.

The Ukrainian National Association's 14th Convention, held in October 1917 in Harrisburg, Pa., sent a letter to President Woodrow Wilson expressing loyalty and support and asking the president to do everything in his power to bring about a "just solution of the Ukrainian question."

The convention also sent a message to the Central Rada in Kyiv expressing best wishes "of success in the struggle for the attainment of freedom for Ukraine."

The convention elected Constantine Kyrchiv as the new president of the UNA. During this period the UNA continued to raise funds in support of Ukraine's liberation struggle in hopes of helping to secure Ukraine's independent statehood.

In 1919, the UNA Supreme Assembly sent a message of greeting to Chief Otaman Symon Petliura, as well as telegrams to Washington and Paris to protest renewed Polish and Russian Bolshevik claims to Ukrainian territory.

Source: "Ukrainian National Association: Its Past and Present, (1894-1964)," by Anthony Dragan (translated from the original Ukrainian by Zenon Snylyk). Jersey City, N.J.: Svoboda Press, 1964. The border featured in this special feature is reproduced from a UNA membership certificate dating to 1919.

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