24 Friday, May 11, 1979 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS BAD CHECKS!! DELINQUENT ACCOUNTS!! LET US COLLECT FOR YOU FOX & ASSOCIATES 23777 Greenfield, Suite 277 Southfield, Mich. 48075 1-313-559-9600 Mr. Elias 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 5 lbs. of MATZO •• , If I can't Beat Your Best Deal Margolis Household Furniture 6 Mile, 1 BIk. W. of Schaefer ARNOLD MARGOLIS INTERIOR DECORATOR SERVICE OUR 33rd YEAR SHARPENING the PENCIL On All Name Brands Furniture and Bedding •SCHOOLFIELD •SELIG •SIMMONS •SEALY •SERTA •SPRING AIR •LA-I- BOY •STIFFEL LAMPS •KROEHLER •AMERICAN •BURLINGTON •BASSETT •BARCALOUNGER •LANE •UNIQUE 13703 W. McNichols 342-5351 Hrs. Mon thru Sat. 9:30 til 5:30 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.