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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 5, 1980 19
Trifa Is Stripped
of U.S. Citizenship
Federal District Judge
Horace Gilmore on Wed-
nesday officially revoked
the U.S. citizenship of
Romanian Orthodox Ar-
chbishop Valerian Trifa of
Grass Lake, Mich. The ac-
tion followed Trifa's volun-
tary surrender of his citi-
miship papers last week
.id ends the denaturaliza-
tion phase of the U.S. gov-
ernment's five-year-old case
against Trifa.
Trifa is accused of conce-
aling his ties to the Fascist
Romanian Iron Guard when
he entered the U.S. in 1950
and when he was granted
U.S. citizenship in 1957. He
is accused of inciting a
Bucharest pogrom in 1941
which killed 236 Jews and
Christians.
During Wednesday's
court proceedings, Trifa was
also forced to relinquish his
passport.
U.S. attorneys in the
case said deportation
proceedings against
Trifa would be started as
soon as the proper pap-
ers could be drawn up.
Dr. Charles Kremer, the
83-year-old dentist whose
25-year effort led to the
government's indictment
against Trifa, told re-
porters outside the De-
troit courtroom that he
was unhappy that the
government did not file
the papers on Wednes-
day.
Dr. Kremer said he would
not feel vindicated until
Trifa was deported.
Detroit attorney Peter
Alter, a member of the Na-
tional Law Commission of
the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith, com-
mented after the proceed-
ings Wednesday that depor-
tation should be started
immediately.
"No justice can be done,"
Alter said, if due process is
not followed swiftly. He
speculated that Trifa sur-
rendered his citizenship
papers because he did not
want to be subjected to the
embarassment of a full
trial. "The government's
case has become very sub-
stantial," Alter said.
"Any argument by the
defendant of his
exemplary life in the U.S.
is totally meritless in this
case. It overlooks the
serious charges" against
Trifa.
di In statemens delivered to
the Jewish News last week,
Trifa and his attorney,
George E. Woods, charged
that the case against the ar-
chibishop was an interna-
tional conspiracy. Woods'
statement was an excerpt
from his book about the
case, "The Undoing."
According to Trifa's
Romanian Orthodox Epis-
copate of America, "From a
simple suit for denaturali-
zation, the Bishop's case
had grown into a vast his-
torical debate over Fascism
in Romania, the relation-
ship of the "Iron Guard" to
Nazi Germany, and the pro-
per labeling of the
Legionary Movement on the
Plan to Attend Bar-Ilan University's
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Tuesday, September 23
VALERIAN TRIFA
political spectrum.
"With teams of govern-
ment lawyers winging their
way to Europe and the Near
East to depose witnesses
and search out public and
private documents, it has
been made out to be a case
with international political
ramifications involvong
Congressional politics,
secret connections between
Richard Nixon and nefari-
ous Romanian indus-
trialists (the machinations
of Nixon being always a
topic designed to arouse
public indignation), and
anonymous American 'pro-
tectors' of ex-Nazis scat-
tered across the country.
Trifa's supporters
claim that Trifa's speech
to the Iron Guard in 1941
ended peacefully. Others
claim that his speech was
directly responsible for
the beginning of the
Bucharest pogrom that
led to the deaths of hun-
dreds of Jews.
According to Woods," One
could hardly deny that
Bishop Trifa was verbal and
critical of what he and so
many others felt was the
undue influence of Roma-
nian Jews in the political
and economic fabric . . .
Nor was there ever the
slightest whisperbS7Trifa of
a race or religious hatred."
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and now stands at 6,000.
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