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Charged with a pro-Nazi past, he gives up U.S. citizenship...
...World Council of Churches and America's National Council of Churches. As His Eminence Valerian, he was head of the 40,000-member Rumanian Orthodox Episcopate of America. Yet one day last week in Detroit he quietly surrendered his certificate of naturalization, and will soon lose the U.S. citizenship he has held for 23 years. When he took this action, he was facing trial on a federal charge that he had lied in order to obtain his citizenship...
...their church headquarters from a rival group loyal to the Orthodox patriarchate in Rumania. Meanwhile Charles Kremer, a Rumanian-American dentist in New York City and a Jew, learned that Trifa had come to the U.S. Kremer inundated the Government with documents to prevent Trifa from getting U.S. citizenship in 1957. The Immigration and Naturalization Service evidently paid him little heed. Kremer kept on trying...
Attorney Woods charges that the Government had available to it all the accusations before granting Trifa citizenship and reopened the case simply because of political pressure. He does not deny that Trifa made anti-Semitic statements, was a wholehearted supporter of the pro-Nazi Legionary movement, and gave a speech on the eve of the 1941 riot. But he denies that Trifa was a Legionary leader, belonged to the Iron Guard, or intended to cause a pogrom. His client, he says, was forced to choose between the Soviets and Nazis, and chose the latter, adopting anti-Semitism that was rampant...
Archbishop Valerian remains head of his denomination, living in a 25-room house on its headquarters estate in Grass Lake, Mich. Once the Justice Department completes the steps to strip him of citizenship, it will have to begin the lengthy process of deporting...