Manifesto Exposes Romanian Iron Guardists

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Romanian Orthodox Episco-
pate of America. Several of
them live in Detroit and, ac-
cording to a reliable source,
meet regularly.
Trifa, whose headquarters
is at Grass Lake, Mich., near
Jackson, is charged with
playing a leadership role in
a pogrom-rebellion that took
the lives of Christians and
Jews in Bucharest in Jan-
uary 1941. He has admitted
he was commander of the
youth movement of the
League of the Archangel
Michael (Iron Guard), but
has insisted he was innocent
of any war crimes.
Now, Trifa's status as a
naturalized American citizen
is under review by the U.S.

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Department of Immigration
and Naturalization, which
has evidence that Trifa lied
about his background when
he arrived in this country in
1950.
The issuance of the mani-
festo was reported in the
United Israel Bulletin of New
York, which has consistently
fought to bring Trifa to jus-
tice in the courts. He faces
trial in Romania, should he
be returned to that country.
In their message, praising
the efforts of the Bulletin
and Dr. Charles Kremer,
head of the Romanian Jew-
ish Federation of America,
Inc., the Romanian Christians
said:
"We thank you and we
thank God that justice at
long last prevails on evil-
doers. You have opened the
door to the downfall of the
devil. It comes late, it is
true, but better late than
never. We, the - sincere Ro-
manians in America, repre-
senting the majority, are
fully with you in your cam-

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paign against the guilty."
The manifesto continues:
"While the defeat of the
`green head' is close at hand,
it is also imperative that there
be a complete liquidation of
the organization of the Iron
Guard Legionnaires enjoying
full freedom in the U.S. and
in Canada. These Trifa
henchmen have masqueraded
for the past 23 years as de-
cent men under the umbrella
of the Romanian Orthodox
Episcopate of America,
which has a clandestine link
with the Russian Metropol of
the U.S."
(Trifa has accused his foes
of links with communism, al-
though his relation with the
Russian Metropolia is not
generally advertised among
his membership.)
Trifa claims that his epis-
copate numbers some 46,000
followers, but the manifesto
asserts that the actual mem-
bership of Trifa's 40 church-
es is less than 5,000.
The signers of the mani-
festo •listed a number of for-
mer Iron Guardists who
"must be exposed and extra-
dited •if the larger Roman-
ian-American community is
to have any peace." Among
the names listed are the fol-
lowing Detroiters:
"Stelian Stanical — sen-
tenced to death in Romania.
He killed more than 40 Ro-
manian personalities in the
Jilava prison in November
1940."
"Ile Olteanu — organizer
and principal killer of scien-
tists Nicolai Iorga and Magh-
iaru.
"Octavian Rosu, Mircea Bi-
anciu, Rev. Dumitru Miha-
escu, Augustin Suteu, Stefan
Slanescu, Cornel Popa. Also
included were Arhim Roman
Braga, of Grass Lake, named
as the probable successor to
Trifa as bishop; and Chirila
Ciuntu of Windsor.
"Most of the above Iron
Guardists came to the Unit-
ed States and Canada before
1952," the manifesto says,
"and all of them entered by
giving false statements as to
their criminal background.
May the just God fulfill the
righteous wishes of the sin-
cere Romanian Americans so
that we could live again, all
of us, in unity, brotherhood,
love and understanding."
A local source said the list
is incomplete and added the
following names of former
Iron Guardists who, he said,

continue to hold meetings
here and are in the "Trifa
camp": Nicolae Smarand-
escu, George Ispas and Dinu
Megru, all of Detroit; Stefan
Merlan of Clawson; Vasile
Simian of Franklin Village;
Petru Lupsor of Southfield;
Valeriu Bugariu of Grosse
Pointe Woods, Grigore Ta-
bacu of Troy, Cezar Teodor-
escu of Livonia and Dumitru
Lungu and Mihal Manciu,
both of Windsor.
The source said that Rev.
Dumitru Mihaescu of St.
Nicholas Church was not or-
dained by a recognized prel-
ate and in fact has no the-
ology background. He came
to this country in 1958.

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33 War Criminals
in U.S. Are Probed

NEW YORK — Thirty-three
alleged Nazi war criminals
living in the United States
are being investigated by the
Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion Service, a government
spokesman announced.
Sol Marks, head of the
New York office, which was
designated as the National
Control Office for Nazi War
Criminals last July, said that
70 persons were originally
being investigated, but it was
learned that 17 had died and
another two are not living in
the U.S. A search is being
conducted for the where-
abouts of 18 others accused
of .war crimes.

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