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516 MARTHA BOHACHEVSKY-CHOMIAKIronically the same issue of Dilo (12 December 1924) carried aneditorial criticism of the project to establish a "Ruthenian Institutein ... Kazan' . . . pardon, Cracow." Some Polish newspapers, however,welcomed Tomashivs'kyi's moderation: Rzeczpospolita (13 October1924), for example, summarized his article with approbation.During the fall of 1924, the commission on the Ukrainian universityheld several meetings, some attended only by the Poles and a few withSmal-Stocki and Studyns'kyi. Jan Łoś, appointed chairman of thecommission on October 28, worked on its by-laws and planned itsactivities. He wanted Studyns'kyi and Tomashivs'kyi to receive appointmentsat the Jagellonian, but the government, beset by economicand other crises, would not fully and openly back the Ukrainianuniversity, even in the preliminary stages. Los's correspondence withthe education ministry expressed the exasperation of a man caught inthe middle. On the one hand, he did not have the full support of hisfaculty; indeed, he received hate mail from Poles. On the other hand,he realized the difficult position of the Ukrainian academics who hadentered into formal agreements with a Polish government which wasreneging on them. He also saw that the government's procrastinationwas impeding the work of the commission. Indeed, in the end thecommission accomplished little. Only at the end of December 1925were Ukrainian intellectuals invited to participate in its deliberations,and then on the condition of taking an oath of loyalty.The Poles played for time. Ukrainian intellectuals hesitated tovolunteer their services without some sign of goodwill from the government.Both Polish and Ukrainian academics were stymied by thefailure of the government to provide at least some pro forma concessionsto the minorities. Smal-Stocki tried to move the matter forward,and in the process, conveniently for the Poles, destroyed the chancesfor any productive action by the commission.At the beginning of November 1925, Studyns'kyi dictated a letter toSmal-Stocki proposing members for the commission. Knowing thatGrabski insisted on assurances of loyalty from the Ukrainians, Smal-Stocki, apparently on his own, wrote a different kind of letter toStanisław Grabski, then minister of education. In it Smal-Stocki assertedthat the Ukrainian scholarly community, deeply concernedabout the fate of Ukrainian youth in the Polish state, was willing tocooperate with the Polish government. The young scholar, who tendedtoward sweeping statements, wrote that "the whole scholarly Ukrainianworld, without exception, answers now to the call of the Minister