1 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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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." 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