THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
30—Friday, July 5, 1974

BORN LOSER

Book by Romanian Iron Guardist
Relates Trifa Role 411941 Pogrom

A faint heart may never
A book written by a priest mander in the Iron Guard,
have won the fair lady—nor , vho knew Viorel Trifa in Ro- write that on May 5, 1941,
did it ever get away from I n ania and who later de- "Viorel Trifa and D. Groza
i i ounced the Iron Guard were invited by the Central
one.
i n ovement, lists the Michigan Office of the Security Services
...••• ■ •.0".-00"•—•" ■ —•- ■ -0"—i- 1 ishop as having led a bloody in Berlin, where they were
3 ucharest insurrection in , asked about their activities in
941, culminating in the the Iron Guard movement
l eaths of hundreds of Jews and all their journeys outside
ByJACK 8 FRITA DRAPKIN
Romania and the events from
' nd Christians.
PERSONAL SERVICE
Trifa, known as Bishop Jan. 21 (1941).
851-2671
"Sima (Horia Sima, head
V alerian to his 4,000 followers
..................-........---------, i n the Romanian Orthodox of the Iron Guard, who now
E piscopate of America, was heads the movement in Ma-
c onvicted in absentia of lead- drid) declared that the men
i ng the insurrection against responsible for the rebellion
and His ORCHESTRA
t he Romanian government in were Trifa and Groza."
J anuary 1941. He was sen- _ The Palaghita book states
"Musk at its Best
tenced to life imprisonment. further:
for Your Guests"
B is hop Valerian, whose
"On July 16, 1941. the fol-
central office is at Grass lowing legionnaires have been
'557-7986
,-
Lake, Mich., has denied the convicted to life imprison-
charges. He insists he did ment by the military tribunal
not lie to immigration au- of the capital (Bucharest):
thorities when he came to Sima, Iasinschi, Ilie Garnea-
this country in 1950 or when ta, Papanace, Patrascu, Vio-
he was naturalized seven rel Trifa .. . "
years later.
(Also listed in the book as
St e f a n Palaghita, who
wrote "Garda de Fer" (Iron having been sentenced in
Guard) in Buenos Aires in absentia was Stelian Stanicel,
1951, died a year after the a Detroiter, who was con-
book's publication. Only five . demned to death on a charge
copies are known to exist of having killed more than
35 Years Experience
40 Romanians in the Jilava
throughout the world.
Doctors Referrals
The remainder, according prison in November 1940. He
L15-4700
to Trifa's foes, were gathered was admitted to citizenship
1955.)
\ up and destroyed by Iron in Trifa
was implicated else-
Guardists, who continue to
maintain a strong organiza- where, according to a -news-
tion. (Local meetings also are paper, "Dreptatea" (The
held, according to a Jewish Justice) edited by a Detroit
News source. At these meet- committee of Romanian
ings, literature printed by Christians. "The Long Balkan
the Iron Guard headquarters Night," written in 1944 by
Fashions
American journalist Leigh
in Madrid is circulated.)
For All Occasions
Palaghita, who was a com- W h it e (Charles Scribner's

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Creative Party Planning

New Taxes, Cuts in Cost-of-Living
Allowances Part of Economic Plan

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The
government adopted a tough
new economic program Tues-
day intended to extract up to
LI 4,000,000,000 ($1,000,000,-
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Sons) stated of the insurrec-
tion that Sima, in an effort
to cover his own guilt, "con-
demned the deed in the
strongest possible terms and
urged the guilty parties to
surrender at once in the in-
terest . of 'legionary justice.'
One of the 'heroes' of the in-
surrection in Bucharest was
D. Groza, the chief of the
Legionary Workers Corps.
"Groza, with Viorel Trifa,
the head of the Students
Union—led the actual fight-
ing."
Armand Salturelli, district
director of the U.S. Immigra-
tion and Naturalization Serv-
ice, said three witnesses
have been interviewed locally
in the Trifa investigation.
Others have been questioned
by the New York INS office,
which is leading the investi-
gation.
Immigration authorities
have been questioning wit-
nesses in the Trifa case with
a view to finding out if—as
has been charged—Trifa lied
about his, Romanian Iron
Guard connections when ap-
pearing before naturalization
authorities.
Without witnesses who ac-
tually saw Trifa lead the
January 1941 insurrection,
evidence will not stand up in
a court of law. It will require
denaturalization of the bishop
before he can be returned to
Romania.
Salturelli again issued a
call for witnesses with direct
information on Trifa's World
War II record.

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The plan, adopted after a
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torium on government spend-
ing on new building projects.
It also provides incentives
for export industries and puts
a damper on imports by in-
creasing tariffs.
Finance Minister Yehoshua
Rabinowitz explained the new
measures in a radio address
Monday night. He said that
while Israel's economy had
returned to normal "quite
rapidly" after the Yom Kip-
pur War, proving its intrinsic
strength, "we have returned
too fast to a regular life style
but conditions do not allow
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He referred to the immense
defense needs which he said
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along with essential economic
activities," Rabinowitz said.
The government's new
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although reservations were
expressed over whether it
will work as intended. The
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Economic experts estimat-
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The government promised,
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four basic commodities, in-
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til the beginning of the next
year and that any price rises
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The war loan imposed on
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