New-York tribune., 1921-01-26
u Untermyer
Aided Kaiser.
Palmer Says
csntiauod from hst sass

peace, and conformably to my very
self-sacrifcing time in New York
"Mr. Untermyer's true status is again
shown in the handwriting diary of
Chief Privy Councillor Albert, repre-
senting the central Einkaufs Gesell-
schaft in this country and to-day
Under SECRETARY of State of the Ger
man Republic:
In other respects this master fes-
tival passed off somewhat anxiously,
since at noon | was summoned to Plain
field to Hagedorn's and in the evening
to Untermyer, at his estate at Grey
stone. l drove there, and had no rea-
son to repent this meeting brought
about for business reasons. Unter-
myer is personally by no means un-
pleasant individual - shrewd, very
familiar with political affairs, and in
a business sense extraordinarily we'll
UP to date.
"'He has. a wonderful estate in the
neighborhood Of Yonkers on the heights
of the Hudson. Opposite are the Pali-
sades of the other bank, over which
the sun went down in wonderful clear
ness. Conversation on the prevention
of the export of ammunition and other
political questions. Viereck was also
present.
Thus it appears that although Mays,
Kaufman and Lindheim were the pub
licly admitted attorneys of the German
Embassy, Untermyer was, in the opin-
ion Of the embassy at least, its control
ling and chief counsel.
when we realize that my Office has
recently prosecuted to conviction and
sentence both Kaufman and Lindheim
for violations of the law growing out
of their activities as counsel for Ger
;y,{o hot 7 boi q
Mr.. Untermyer's relative. according to
his own sworn statement before the
Overman committee, it is plain that
conscienceless resentment now moves
him. although before this prosecution,
on July 26, 1919, more than four months
after | had severed all connection with
the Alien Property Custodians office,
he wired me:
"sI have freely, openly, consistently
every transaction where I was con-
cerned, and will be glad in common
Justice to repeat that assertion at any
time and place. Your Office was con-
Quoted with exceptional ability. You
selected best talent regardless of other
considerations. No ADLER, more devoted
officials than Garvan and Bradley and
Palmer could anywhere be found.
Money could not buy such service
"He also fails to tell the public that
his partner, Louis Marshall, has been
and is the counsel for the Stoehrs in
the Botany Worsted cases, and Richard
Wagner in the SHINES steamship cases,
both involving over $30000,000, and
both claimed by the Alien Property
Custodian to be attempted fraudulent
evasions of the trading with the enemy
act These two cases are the most i'm
portant cases now pending before our
courts in the whole field of the activi-
! ties of the Alien Property Custodian.
He calls upon me to furnish the
names of the people and the amount
! they received in connection with MY
appointments while Alien Property Gus
todian. This has long since been done
and is matter of public record, which
has been printed and published the
| country over. 1t is record which,
! though subjected to the most critical
examination by hostile Congress for
over year, has never developed a
single fact to justify repetition OF
| the enemy inspired charges of favorit-
! ism or politics in that work.
in response to a request made in
| the hearings on the third deficiency
/ appropriation bill for the fiscal year
| 1919 by the Committee on Appropria-
( tons of the House of Representatives
! Of the first session of the present Con
gress. there was filed and printed q
statement showing all directors repre-.
/ senting the Alien Property Custodian
in the 307 corporations in which ar
enemy interest had been taken over
by either those directors or the Alier
Property Custodian, together with th'
fees or salaries paid to each.
"This was a complete and accura tt