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Charged with a pro-Nazi past, he gives up U.S. citizenship
Behind the dry legal charge stood a far more bloodcurdling allegation: that this bespectacled man of God was once Viorel Trifa, head of a pro-Nazi youth organization in Bucharest. Witnesses accuse him of delivering an anti-Semitic speech in January 1941 (sample: "A group of Jews and Jew-lovers are ruling everything") that helped to incite rioting during which hundreds-perhaps thousands-of Jews were slain. (The official report listed 236 dead, half of them Gentiles...
Largely through his efforts, the U.S. Government eventually reopened the file on Trifa. In 1975 it accused him of failing to disclose in his naturalization questionnaire that he had been a member of the dreaded pro-Nazi Iron Guard and that he had incited persecution of Jews...
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...
...became Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs (1945-47); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Brash yet amiable, Braden was a spokesman for democratic liberties in the Western Hemisphere, ever on the crusade against dictatorship. In 1940, as Ambassador to Colombia, he managed the firing of pro-Nazi pilots who endangered the Panama Canal. As fervently anti-Communist as he was anti-Nazi, Braden later took a firm cold war stance, calling for a U.S. invasion of Cuba...