OVER 3,000 UKRAINIANS AND OTHER NATIONALS PROTEST KHRUSHCHEV'S ARRIVAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS

NEW YORK, Sunday, September 18, 1960. - Over 3,000 Ukrainians and other American citizens of Eastern and Central European countries as well as several hundred American war veterans took part in a well-organized and orderly protest parade against Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his communist puppets. The protest was organized by the United American Organizations of Greater New York, a branch of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America.

The protest march began at 40th Street and Fifth Avenue at 4:00 P.M. when several Ukrainian groups, as well as those from Latvia, Byelorussia, Estonia, Hungary, Cossackia, Lithuania and Cuba gathered with their national flags as well as those of the United States. Hundreds of anti-Khrushchev posters and signs were carried, bearing such inscriptions as "Khrushchev - Hangman of Ukraine," "Khrushchev Is A Murderer," "Khrushchev Another Hitler," "Freedom for Ukraine," "Russians Get Out of Ukraine," and the like.

In the parade, led by Walter Steck, Esq., prominent N.Y. attorney and a major in the U.S. Air Force (res.), was also the Hon. Leonard Farbstein, Congressman from the N.Y. 19th Congressional District, and the Hon. Siegel, Assemblyman from Albany.

The parade was silent and many of the marchers wore black ties, and black ribbons in their buttonholes as a sign of mourning.

Originally, the Ukrainian parade was to march up Fifth Avenue to Sixty-eight Street, or to proceed to the U.N. from there if they could get an extended police permit could be obtained. The police however, turned the paraders off on Fifty-seventh Street and ordered them to disband on Third Avenue.

It appeared that a majority of the marchers walked in small groups to 680 Park Avenue, carrying with them the signs and posters denouncing the Soviet Dictator. At the Soviet Mission headquarters they were stopped by some fifty policemen on duty there who were almost overwhelmed by the crowd, when an emergency call went out for help which brought an additional force of mounted police and forty-four detectives. Half of the screaming and angry demonstrators, denouncing the Soviet Premier, were forced from the southwest corner of the intersection to Madison Avenue, a block away from the Soviet Mission, and the other half was pushed behind police barricades at the northeast corner.

Early that afternoon a motorcade against Khrushchev gathered about 300 cars, including a large chartered bus and several trucks.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, September 24, 1960, No. 184, Vol. LXVII

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