President Viktor Yushchenko has signed Directive No. 1260/2005-rp, dated Dec. 2, 2005, on measures to perpetuate the memory of James Mace, who was a public figure and researcher of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine. The Cabinet of Ministers, in collaboration with the Kyiv City State Administration, is instructed to resolve, in keeping with established procedures, all matters relating to the erection of a monument to Mace by Feb. 18, 2007, his 55th birthday; naming educational establishments and research centers in his honor; naming or renaming a street in Kyiv in his honor; and erecting a memorial plaque on the apartment building in which he lived in Kyiv. The Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine are instructed to arrange for lectures to be delivered in educational establishments and military units to popularize Mace’s activities and his contribution to Holodomor studies in Ukraine. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism will study the possibility of creating a television documentary, and the State Television and Radio Committee will organize a series of television and radio programs about Mace’s life and work. In addition, the Cabinet of Ministers and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine will arrange for the publication of Mace’s research papers and press articles.
This year our newspaper published the Ukrainian-English book Day and Eternity of James Mace, financed by the staff. It includes Mace’s analytical articles and weekly lead stories written for The Day in 1998-2004, along with several little-known articles borrowed from other editions and his speech to the Writers’ Union of Ukraine in 1994, in conjunction with the founding of the Genocide Institute. The Day does not claim the leading role in this process because this was the moral duty of the team of journalists.
Why shouldn’t the state undertake to distribute this book, which already exists? This way the education, culture, and defense ministries would now be able to launch a series of lectures that would illustrate Mace’s contribution to Holodomor studies in Ukraine, thereby helping to convey the memory of our late colleague to the young generations.
