The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-13
'CUKOR A DIRECTOR
IN TRANSATLANTIC
Hylan Appointee, = Head of
Civil Service, Quits Company
as Palmer Acts.
HUNGARIAN SPEECH BARE
Won Steer Arrested in Bank
Case Ex-Secretary to
Francis Joseph.

Francis Joseph.
Developments yesterday following the
| arrest by United States Government
| agents on Thursday OF Julius Printer
and three fellow officials Of the Trans
| atlantic Trust Company a. alien enemies
disclosed the fact that one of Mayor
Hylan's appointees to an important COM
m!saionership in the city service has
been under Investigation by A. Mitchell
Palmer. the Allen Property Custodian.
Among the directors Of the Transat-
| laafic Trust Company whose resigna-
| lions were turned In to Custodian Pal
mer after he had taken control OF the
bank several days ago was Morris Cukor.
| Manhattan lawyer, who was appointed
| a member of the Municipal Civil Service
Commission at $1,000 year by Mayor
Hylan when the latter took ONCE last
January. When Mr.. Palmer forced a
reorganization Of the directorate of the
bank. - per cent OF the stock OF which
! was held by Hungarian banks in Buda-
pest Mr.. Cukor was dropped from the
| board
One OF the facts developed by the
| Allen Property Custodian's. investiea-
lions of the banks affairs was that I'D
| to the time Of the entry of the United
States into the war Mr.. Cukor had peen
unremitting In his espousal of the Aus
tro- Hungarian cause.
Only last Wednesday Commissioner
Cukor was elected president OF the COM
mission at salary OF $4,000 to I'LL the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
James f. Mcbride.
| Among the memoranda on file in
the ONCE Of Francis p. -Garvan, New
York representative Of Custodian Pal
mer. Is an English. translation Of
| speech said to have been delivered by
! Mr.. Cukor on August 10. 1915. and re-
ported In the New Yorker staots-Zei-
tun0 or the following day. In his Of.
| nee In the Municipal, Building yesterday
afternoon Commissioner Cukor would not
| deny that he made such a speech. but
declared that he could not remember
just where or the circumstances under
| which he might have made IT, The
translation OF the speech. which was
read to Commissioner Cunor yesterday.
| follows:
Love for Fatherland.
1--WE % not sway in our loyalty. but
We Rllege the right Of all to extend love
to our fatherland and assistance to our
harassed brothers Free speech is the
right Of every citizen. In spite OF this,
part OF the press would deprive us Of
the risht because we .sympathize with
I'VE decline energeticflly to be mug
aled by Ansiophiles and tinsoes. They
speak of the couture, battle. although
1t Is the battle Of Russia, and although
but few years ago. many OF these
papers were the loudest in denouncing
Russia. We protest as American citi-
Gems on being compelled to silence
against English chicanery. Russian ty-
ranny. French perfdy and Italian
treachery. and also. We do not agree that
our adopted country shall become a
factory for instruments Of murder to be
delivered to the 'torchbearers Of civiliza-
tion.' these torchbearers being the COL
ored men Of India, Africa and the South
Sea Islands and other wild hordes
| against the barbarian students Of Hell
delberg. Berlin. Vienna and Budapest :"
II might have made such a speech"
Commissioner Cukor explained yester-
day. "at some meeting in commemora-
ton Of the first anniversary OF the war
| II recall making a speech In which, 7
said that at that time, as American
| citizens. those born in Hungary had a
| right to sympathize with the people of
their race. II that sympathy was con-
sistent with our duties and obligations
as American citizens further said
that no one Of US would find fault with
| Frerchman or an Engl,shman for
sympathizing with his people. and there
fore no one could ind fault with US for
sympath.zing with our people II we did
not go beyond our duties as American
citizens. / said that we should never
permit our sympathy to run away with
or outweigh our Americanism"
| Cukor's History Here.
Until the Alien Property Custodian
took over the control Cukor has been a
director OF the Transatlantic Trust Com
pany ever since Its organisation In 1912.
II was said at that time that he and
Alexander Won Nuber. the Austro- Hun
earian Consul-General in New York. had
given a dinner to Or, Constantin Theo-
dor Dumba. the Austro- Hungarian AM
bessador whose recall was demanded
by President Wilson. and who was COM
monty credited with being concerned in
the organisation OF the bank
Cukor lives at ST. West End avenue
and has been known as an active Tam
many Hail worker and leader among
the Hungarians OF the city
In September OF 1915 he appeared in
the Federal Courts OF Brooklyn as coun-
sci for 1gnatius I. T. Lincoln, the for
mer member Of the British Parliament,
erstwhile clergyman and seif-styled in
ternational spy in his unsuccessful ef-
fort to fight extradition 10 England. and
after he had once escaped from the GUS
tody OF United States agents. Lincoln.
whose real name Is Tribich, and who
was born in Paks. Hungary. became the
centre OF an international sensa ton
when he escaped to America from Eng
land and openly boosted OF how he had
supplied Germany with military infor-
nation regarding BritSin's war plans
Government agents continued their In
resignation yesterday OF the activities
OF the four officials OF the Transatlantic
Trust Company now under arrest, al
though none OF the prisoners WAS