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Friday, August 29, 1980
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
NM.
Trifa Surrenders His U.S. Citizenship
(Continued from Page 1)
Trifa, 65, contends he
has been denied due
process in the case be-
cause the Federal gov-
ernment waited 30 years
to bring charges against
him. A defense motion
based on that argument
was overruled last year
Federal Judge Cor-
)...,iia Kennedy.
Trifa said he surrendered
his citizenship papers in
order to keep his case from
becoming "a power struggle
between my church, my
American government and
my country of origin." He
denied that giving up' his
papers was an admission of
guilt.
Attorneys for Trifa say
the prelate has spent more
than $100,000 for legal fees.
Most of the funds were re-
portedly raised by his
church's 35,000 members in
the U.S.
Dr. Charles Kremer, an
83-year-old retired New
York dentist, has led the
fight for action on the Trifa
case for more than 25 years.
Dr. Kremer said he was
pleased that Trifa had sur-
rendered his papers, but
added that he was "deter-
mined to continue the
fight."
Gabaiie's deposition, ac-
cording to Rabbi Dobin,
states that Gabaiie grew up
with Trifa in Romania and
went to the Bucharest
church where Trifa was
speaking on Jan. 21, 1941.
According to Dobin, Gabaiie
said the church was filled
with Iron Guardists who
were given weapons from
two automobiles driven by
Nazi SS. Gabaiie reportedly
watched Trifa lead the pog-
rom and kill several indi-
viduals.
While in the U.S. Trifa
has
been a controversial
DR. CHARLES KREMER
Detroiter Peter Alter, figure. There were allega-
vice-chairman of the na- tions that he forcefully took
tional law committee of the over the Romanian Or-
Anti-Defamation League of thodox Episcopate of
Bnai Brith, called for Fed- America and brought in
eral officials to begin depor-
tation proceedings as soon
as possible.
Rabbi Rubin R. Dobin,
chairman of an American
anti-Nazi association in
Miami, Fla., believes that
Trifa surrendered his
papers after seeing tes-
timony obtained from a
Miami eyewitness to the
Jan. 21, 1941 Bucharest
pogrom. Rafael Gabaiie,
83, was located for Jus-
tice Department inves-
tigators last January by
Rabbi Dobin's group.
Iron Guard cronies as
priests. The archdiocese
under Trifa took over a local
parish in Detroit after a bit-
ter court battle between the
parish and the archdiocese.
As an anti-Communist,
Trifa was invited in the late
1950s by then Vice
President Richard Nixon to
give the invocation before a
session of the U.S. Senate.
Trifa has contended in the
past that the charges
against him have been
fomented by the Com-
munist regime in Romania
and that he would not get a
fair trial in Romania. Ob-
servers believe that Trifa
will use this argument in
any deportation proceed-
ings brought against hirn.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — A
group of 38 prominent
American Jews who had
joined last month in ad-
vocating territorial com-
promise and in criticizing
extremists in Israel, re-
leased a statement Wed-
nesday denouncing last
week's United Nations Se-
curity Council resolution on
Jerusalem and voicing "re-
gret" that the United States
did not cast a veto.
The statement was
drafted and circulated by
Leonard Fein Of Boston,
editor of the independent
Jewish monthly, Moment,
and signed by two-thirds of
the 56 Jewish leaders whose
public declaration on July 1
caused widespread con-
troversy in the American
Jewish Community.
Signers of the statement
included Theodore Mann
and Rabbi Alexander
Schindler, both former
chairmen of the Conference
of Presidents of Major ,
erican Jewish Organ-
ations; Stephen Shalom,
past president of the New
York United Jewish
Appeal-Federation of
Jewish Philanthropies
drive; Theodore Bikel,
senior vice president L2 the
American Jewish Congress.
The statement said, in
part:
. "We believe that the
United Nations has no
moral authority to speak
to the Jerusalem ques-
tion. In a complex and
anguished world, the UN
and its member agencies
have repeatedly behaved
as if the Middle East were
the only area of interna-
tional crisis warranting
their attention. This dis-
tortion has prevented the
UN and its agencies from
responding appropri-
ately to a variety of other
and not less-vexing mat-
ters. Further, the UN's
obsession with the Mid-
dle East has demonstra-
bly failed to advance the
cause of peace even in
that troubled region.
Citizens of the United
States, and of the world,
are forced to conclude
that the United Nations
has been taken hostage
by the PLO, to no good
purpose.
"We regret that the
United States did not, in its
vote, have the courage of the
convictions it expressed in
the course of the debate.
"We find it ironic that
those who have insisted
upon Israel's liquidation —
upon the liquidation ,of a
member state of the United
Nations — and who have
adopted international ter-
rorism as their preferred
method of behavior, should
be treated with deference,
while a member state which
is governed by the rule of
law is repeatedly vilified.
"Finally, we wish to make
it absolutely clear that we
regard Jerusalem as the et-
ernal capital of the Jewish
state. Its integrity as a
united city is beyond de-
bate. Questions of bound-
aries, access and the status
of the holy places may be the
subject of negotiation. The
status of Jerusalem as a
united city, and as Israel's
capital, is not."
Fein, who had played a
major role in preparing the
earlier statement, said that
many of the original 56
signers were on vacation
and could not be reached.
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