The Military Family: Dynamics and Treatment. (The Guilford Family Therapy Series.) Edited by Florence W. Kaslow and Richard I. Ridenour. New York: Guilford Press, 1984. 316 pp. $25.00

Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans and sent them to internment camps. One of those internees was Charles Kikuchi. In thousands of diary pages, he documented his experiences in the camps, his resettlement in Chicago and drafting into the army on the eve of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his postwar life as a social worker in New York City. Kikuchi's diaries bear witness to a watershed era in American race relations, and expose both the promise and the hypocrisy of American democracy. This book follows Kikuchi's personal odyssey among fellow Japanese American intellectuals, immigrant activists, Chicago School social scientists, everyday people on Chicago's South Side, and psychologically scarred veterans in the hospitals of New York. The book chronicles a remarkable moment in America's history in which interracial alliances challenged the limits of the elusive democratic ideal, and in which the nation was forced to choose between civil liberty and the fearful politics of racial hysteria. It was an era of world war and the atomic bomb, desegregation in the military but Jim and Jap Crow elsewhere in America, and a hopeful progressivism that gave way to Cold War paranoia. The book looks at Kikuchi's life and diaries as a lens through which to observe the possibilities, failures, and key conversations in a dynamic multiracial America.

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The Military Organization of a Renaissance State: Venice c. 1400 to 1617, by M.E. Mallett and J.R. HaleThe Military Organization of a Renaissance State: Venice c. 1400 to 1617, by M.E. Mallett and J.R. Hale. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. Cambridge, London, and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1984. xvi, 525 pp. $59.50 U.S.

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.20.1.109 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 109-110

Author(s):

Paul F. Grendler

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Early Modern ◽

Modern History ◽

Early Modern History ◽

Military Organization ◽

Cambridge University ◽

The Military

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Functioning of Ukrainian Bureau in Washington D. C. (March 1939 – May 1940)

Proceedings of Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv ◽

10.37222/2524-0315-2019-11(27)-8 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 142-157

Author(s):

Danylo Kravets

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

The United States ◽

College Degrees ◽

The Us ◽

Us Government ◽

General Functioning ◽

History Of ◽

Governmental Institutions ◽

History Of Journalism ◽

The Military

The aim of the Ukrainian Bureau in Washington was propaganda of Ukrainian question among US government and American publicity in general. Functioning of the Bureau is not represented non in Ukrainian neither in foreign historiographies, so that’s why the main goal of presented paper is to investigate its activity. The research is based on personal papers of Ukrainian diaspora representatives (O. Granovskyi, E. Skotzko, E. Onatskyi) and articles from American and Ukrainian newspapers. The second mass immigration of Ukrainians to the US (1914‒1930s) has often been called the «military» immigration and what it lacked in numbers, it made up in quality. Most immigrants were educated, some with college degrees. The founder of the Ukrainian Bureau Eugene Skotzko was born near Western Ukrainian town of Zoloczhiv and immigrated to the United States in late 1920s after graduating from Lviv Polytechnic University. In New York he began to collaborate with OUN member O. Senyk-Hrabivskyi who gave E. Skotzko task to create informational bureau for propaganda of Ukrainian case. On March 23 1939 the Bureau was founded in Washington D. C. E. Skotzko was an editor of its Informational Bulletins. The Bureau biggest problem was lack of financial support. It was the main reason why it stopped functioning in May 1940. During 14 months of functioning Ukrainian Bureau in Washington posted dozens of informational bulletins and send it to hundreds of addressees; E. Skotzko, as a director, personally wrote to American governmental institutions and foreign diplomats informing about Ukrainian problem in Europe. Ukrainian Bureau activity is an inspiring example for those who care for informational policy of modern Ukraine.Keywords: Ukrainian small encyclopedia, Yevhen Onatsky, journalism, worldview, Ukrainian state. Keywords: Ukrainian Bureau in Washington, Eugene Skotzko, public opinion, history of journalism, diaspora.

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