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U.S.-Funded Radio Free Europe Broadcasts
Interview of Accused Pogrom Leader Trifa
NEW YORK (JTA) — Ar-
chbishop Valerian Trifa, ac-
cused by eye:witnesses of -
instigating the Bucharest
pogrom in January 1941,
was interviewed for 45
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minutes on May 1 by Radio
Free Europe, an organiza-
tion funded by the U.S.
Congress which broadcasts
to Communist countries in
Eastern Europe.
As president of the Na-
tional IThion of Christian
Romanian Students, the
youth arm of the Romanian
fascist Iron Guard, Trifa is
charged with atrocities in
1941. that resulted in the
mass murders of between •
1,200-12,000 Jews.
Now archbishop of the
Romanian Orthodox
Church in the U.S., for-
merly known as the Roma-
nian Orthodox Episcopate
of America, Trifa faces de-
naturalization hearings be-
ginning July 30 for his al-
leged war crimes.
Dr. Charles Kremer of
New York City, who has
been tracing Trifa's
career since 1947, said
that he believes the Radio
Free _Europe _interview
will create a more favor-
able image for the former
Iron Guard leader.
Kremer said that the man
who interviewed Trifa,
identified in the broadcast
as "Brancusi," is Diva
Floda, a Romanian Jew who
has worked for Radio Free
Europe for may years.
"I couldn't believe it. I've
known this man Floda for
20 years and taken him into
my confidence," Kremer
said. "When I asked him
how he could grant an
interview to a murderer of
his own people, he said that
he had been ordered to by
his boss, Noel Bernard, in
Munich and this Bernard,
too, is a Jew.
Kremer said Floda told
him that "the program was
broadcast only because it
was the 50th anniversary of
the founding of the Roma-
nian Church in America."
Floda confirmed that
he acted under orders
from_Bernard to conduct
the interview which he
said was a "very difficult
assignment." But he de-
nied that Bernard, too-,-,
may have been acting
under orders. He said
Bernard, who is in
Munich, makes policy_
and felt it was imperative
that listeners of Radio
Free Europe iitRomaiiia
be informed of the
church's 50th anniver-
sary.
Floda stressed that the
interview was devoted ex-
clusively to the history of
the Romanian Orthodox
Episcopate of America since
its founding in 1929 and
that no other subject was
touched on. He said the
interview was broadcast
only to Romania.
Floda said that . Radio
Free Europe had assigned
one of its Washington-based
journalists to interview Ar-
chbishop Victorin Urache of
the Romanian Missionary
Orthodox Episcopate in De-
troit, also marking its 50th
anniversary, but the man
was "thrown out" of
Urache's office on grounds
that Radio Free Europe
Spreads "lies."
According to Floda,
Urache's church is a
"splinter" controlled by the
Communist authorities in
Romania.
Bill Kratch, director of
the New York office of Radio
Free Europe, said that it
was a privately instituted
non-profit organization
funded by Congress through
the Board for International
Broadcasting (BIB), a fed-
eral agency, and by private
donations.
Martyrs Tribute
Urged at the UN
NEW YORK (JTA) = A
delegation of women's
groups associated with the
Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations met with
high officials of the United
Nations and urged them to
follow the lead of the Carter
Administration in com-
memorating the victims of
the Holocaust.
In meetings with
Undersecretary-General for
Political Affairs, Brian Ur-
quhart, and Teo. C. Van Bo-
ven, director of the division
of human rights at UN
headquarters in Geneva,
the Jewish women leaders
deplored the "silence of the
United Nations" during the
world-wide ceremonies
marking the Holocaust.
*AJC Speakers
NEW YORK — Senator
Daniel P. Moynihan (D-
N.Y.), Israeli Ambassador
Ephraim Evron, TV jour-
nalist Bill Moyers, Assis-
tant Secretary of State
Hodding Carter III, and
Presidential Assistant
Anne Wexler head the list of
speakers who will address
the 73rd annual meeting of
the American Jewish
Committee this weekend at
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.