sentences:  from the law school at Penn in 1910.Following his father's involvement in Rusyn affairs, Zhatkovich was drawn in 1918 into the role of a spokesman for the American National Council of Uhro-Rusyns, at the time when the dissolution of Austria-Hungary placed their future - as that of many other peoples - on the international diplomatic agenda.In July 1918, Rusyn-Americans convened and called for complete independence of Carpathian Ruthenia.