goommig. 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 SILVER JUBILEE DINNER 6 p.m., Congregation Shaarey Zedek 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 . . . 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