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510 MARTHA BOHACHEVSKY-CHOMIAKAllies their good will toward the minorities if the territorial status quowas to be sanctioned. Hence on 26 September 1922, they promulgateda law which called for the establishment of a Ukrainian universitywithin two years.Count Stanisław Łoś, an organizer of a small party of Ukrainianpeasants willing to cooperate with the Poles which was bitterly resentedby all other Galician Ukrainians, approached Rev. Tyt Voinarovs'kyi,a prominent Ukrainian cleric known for level-headedness,about the possibility of initiating negotiations for a Ukrainian university.Voinarovs'kyi met Łoś on what was considered neutral ground—conferences sponsored by the Vatican in Warsaw. The two mendiscussed both the need for the university and the difficulties itsestablishment would create, and Voinarovs'kyi communicated Los'sintentions to the Ukrainian political leadership. 28The senate of theLviv Clandestine University insisted that Łoś be formally authorizedby the Polish government to carry on negotiations, and that he do sothrough the Ukrainian Inter-Party Council. 29Voinarovs'kyi, however, tried to convince Shchurat and MarianPanchyshyn, a physician, to discuss the matter with the Poles directly,without going through the council. Shchurat and Panchyshyn refused,and both continued to work in the clandestine university. On 12 February1923 its community base was strengthened by the establishmentof the Curatoria of Ukrainian Higher Schools, which was to supervisethe running of the Clandestine University and the polytechnic institutewhich had developed alongside it. The Curatoria put forward a formalproposal to Warsaw that the Ukrainian Clandestine University becomea state university. This proposal was simultaneously raised byUkrainian representatives to the Diet from Volhynia, Kholm, Pidliashshia,and Polissia (areas which had formerly been under theRussian empire and had not boycotted the election). The proposalreceived no response. Moreover, when the Curatoria petitioned the28Łoś stressed the small number of qualified Ukrainian faculty — a viewechoed in a memorandum of the rector of the Jagellonian and expressed by otherPolish intellectuals. Mudryi, Borot'ba, pp. 118-22, quotes some of the correspondencebetween Łoś and Voinarovs'kyi. Of interest are Voinarovs'kyi's memoirs,published in htorychni postati Halychyny XIX-XX st., pt. 1: Spohady zmoho zhyttia, by Tyt Voinarovs'kyi, ed. Daniel Bohachevsky (Philadelphia,1961), especially pp. 70-73.29See Mudryi, Borot'ba, p. 122. Apparently Łoś tried to continue the negotiations,with a representative of the Ukrainian Peasant Party, Rev. Nykolai Il'kiv,as an intermediary. Il'kiv, a member of the pro-Polish party, was regarded as atraitor by Galician Ukrainians and his inquiries went unanswered; ibid., p. 127.