The People's Voice

"THE HOUR"
EXPOSES
NAZI
AGENT
Militant
Anti-Nazi Weekly
Newsletter
Exposes One of
Leaders of Ukrainian-American
Society as Being "Fifth
Columnist".

The June 28 issue of the Philadelphia
Ukrainian publication America
features an article by the nazi-Ukrainian
agent Bohdan Katamay which is
outspoken in its endorsement of Hitler's
invasion of Russia. Katamay
boasts he speaks in the name of General
Paul Skoropadsky, chief of the
fascist Hetman band, which operates
under the direction of nazi ideologist
Alfred Rosenberg. Katamay relates
that he was received "in special audience"
by Skoropadsky in Berlin on
March 13, 1940, and that the latter
promised "he would make arrangements
with foreign powers whenever
such arrangements, in his opinion,
would be in the interest of the Ukrainian
state."

After denouncing Winston Churchill
and Franklin D. Roosevelt for having
offered support to the Soviet Union,
Katamay declares, "In the interest of
the Ukrainian people is the complete
disappearance of every vestige of the
bloody regime of Stalin from the land
of the Ukraine. . . . If the people of
the Ukraine decide to have Skoropadsky
or Andrew Melnyk as their head
of state, shall we in America fight
against such a decision of our nation?
I think we should not." The
present task for Ukrainian-Americans,
he adds, is "to supply proofs to the
American government that the aid to
the Soviets is not in the interest of
America."

Katamay's Work for Third Reich

Katamay's article fits into the nazi
inspired campaign among Ukrainian
fifth columnists in the United States
to prevent assistance from reaching
Russia. Katamay's association with
the nazis is of long-standing. Before
he came to the United States, he collaborated
in the publishing of an
anti-Semitic newspaper in Lwow,
Poland; the publication was subsidized
by the Hitler government. As soon as Katamay arrived in this country, he publicly expressed his pro-nazi sympathies in a series of Jew-baiting articles in America.

He has continued to play a leading role in fascist Ukrainian-American circles. It is said that the nazis, in recognition of his effective work to date, have now selected him to act as one of the key directors of their propaganda work in the United States.

In his writing Katamay frequently employs the phrase, "We, the American citizens."

The Hour is informed that Bohdan Katamay is not an American citizen and that several years ago he was deported from this country. He returned to the United States about a year ago, shortly after meeting with General Skoropadsky in Berlin.

It seems highly advisable that the immigration division of the department of justice take action against this nazi-Ukrainian agent.