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THE UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITY IN GALICIA 517and the Government with its readiness for sincere and loyal cooperation."The phrasing, totally at odds with Studyns'kyi's simple proposalof Ukrainian members for the commission, played into the hands of itsopponents, both Polish and Ukrainian. 40Smal-Stocki's letter was leaked to the press. Dilo printed it onDecember 15, in Ukrainian translation and with the date of writingincorrectly given as December 7. Ukrainian activists interpreted Smal-Stocki's assurance that the Ukrainian faculty would work with thePoles and would be loyal to the Polish state as an act of treason. Hewas publicly boycotted.Writing to Jan Łoś, Studyns'kyi charged Smal-Stocki with misrepresentingthe views of the Ukrainian scholarly community, of actingwithout authorization, and of destroying the proposed commission andthe Ukrainian university altogether. In the same letter, however,Studyns'kyi gave graphic examples of why cooperation with the Poleswas virtually impossible:Eleven Ukrainian professors and lecturers were terminated from Lviv University— should this strengthen faith in the Polish government's interest in theUkrainian issue? One-half-thousand Ukrainian schools have been changedinto bilingual schools. The achievements wrested during Austrian times havebeen destroyed by the Polish government. I would like to believe that Polandin its own interest will settle the Ukrainian matter. Facts and reality, however,do not permit me to believe in what Mr. Stocki, in his own as yet unstudiedinterests, stated in the declaration [i.e., his published letter] as a dogma. 41Ukrainian student groups reacted swiftly — they supported thepublic boycott of Smal-Stocki and accused him of treason. The resolutionof the oldest Ukrainian academic society — Sich, in Vienna —was typical:The students cannot leave unanswered the declaration of Dr. Roman Smal-Stocki on the matter of the Ukrainian university in Poland. The Societyresolves: (1) to brand the action of Dr. Roman Smal-Stocki as a provocationon the part of the Polish Minister of Education Grabski and his weapon [sic]Dr. Roman Smal-Stocki to bring dissension and demoralization into the ranksof the whole Ukrainian society; (2) to enjoin all faculty and scholars uponwhom Dr. Roman Smal-Stocki based his declaration to make a formal publicannouncement that they had not authorized Dr. Roman Smal-Stocki to makethe above-mentioned declaration and that Dr. Roman Smal-Stocki appears inthis matter as an impostor, abusing their good name. 4240The full text appears in document 11, pp. 540-542.41See document 12, pp. 542-545.42As cited in Students'kyi vistnyk (Prague), February 1926. The declaration,dated 26 December 1925, was signed by Iurii Vitoshyns'kyi, vice-president, and