The Washington herald., 1921-01-26
Attorney-General Insists
That Lawyer Wrote Last
BOy-ed Note.
UNPAID ADVISER
TO EMBASSY HERE"
Says Partner, Marshall,
Is Counsel Against
Alien Custodian.


tiles Of Samuel Untcrmycr at the
outbreak Of the war and the de-
tails Of his connection with the
German embassy and it's notorious
naval attache, Capt. Boy-Ed, were
recalled by Attorney.GeneraI Palmer
Yesterday in a statement denying
Mr.. Untermyer's recent charges OF
discrimination and unfairness in the
administration of the Office of Allen
Property Custodian.
The Attorney General by review
ing the Congressional investigation
Of the property custodian's office
went the whole length in seeking
10 establish refutatiOn OF the I'm
termyer assertions. Mr.. Palmer
also cOuntered heavily by MAKING
public tho text of now-forEottcn
war documents. which. he. said.
proved that Mr.. Untermyer not only
acted as unpaid judicial and legal
political adviser" to the Imperfa.
German Embassy. but wrote the
short and sharp" statement issued
by Boy-Ed on the eve Of his dc,
Harturo from american shores.
Acts in Germans Interests.
u is the Attorney Generals df-
rect charge that Mr.. Untermyer in
his attacks upon the Department
of Justice and the alien propertv
custodian is moved by pro-German
sentiments and is acting in the in
forests Of Germans even at the
present time Mr.. Palmer also as
sorts that Mr.. Untermyer falls to
tell the public that his partner,
Louis Marshall. is at present coun-
sci for the Botany worsted cases
and the SHINES Steamship cases,
10th involving more than s3O,ono.-
e"o. AMI both claimed by the allen 4
property custodian to be attempted
fraudulent evasions OF the trading
with the enemy act"
Mr.. Untermyer. the Attorney Cen
"ral charged, lis simply serving his
cid clients by attempting to dis
credit the wartime work of CAP
turing enemy property in the United
States"
Banks on Public ForSettipE
With naive confidence in public
forgetfulness," continues the Pal
mer statement, Mr. Untermyer pro-
fesses to be doing his work in the
peoples interest. 1t is really in
the German interest"
The statement in part follows:
The malicious refteration nv
Samuel Untermeyer of the baseless
rUmOrs and false charges which
the friends OF Germany insistentIv
circulate about the work of the
Alien Property Custodian would
not call for any reply il his recent
activities had not somewhat OBJ
scured in the public mind his
earlier connections which made the
motives plain. He desires to undo
4 significant part of the wars
achievement. He was vigorously
opposed to the governments policy
as laid down by Congress and
carried out by the Executive-inI
regard to enemy property. He re-
fcrs to enemy owned concerns in
this country as. the properties of
these unfortunate people" whose
sad plight he always sought to al
lcviate.
His exact status despite his
ruuivOCations and dcnials, with re-
spect to these unfortunate people,
the Germans-is bestvshown by
an official report of Capt. Boy-Ed,
the notorious naval attache of the
German Embassy, who was sent
out of the country by the govern
mcnt 1t is addressed to the Chief
uf the German admiralty staff, was
captured on Boy-Ed's person in I
Nazareth, and was transmitted to
this country by the general head |
quarters of the American Expedi- |
tionary Forces in France. In ex-
planning a statement abusing the
American people which he issued /
on being expelled from this coun-
try, Boy-Ed said.
Every statement was drawn up in
its original form by SOunseI Samuel
IJntermyer. He was, at the time of
nv stay in New York, the unpaid
iuridical and legal-poIitical adviser
to the Imperial Embassy. He is onei
Of the most important, If not the.
greatest, counsel of the United
states, the presumptive successor of
Mr.. Gerard, il he, should leave his
ambassadorial post. a former very
influential member of the Demo- |
cratic party Of New York State, a.
personal friend of warburg, Federal
Reserve Bank, of the Secretary Of
Justice, the Chief State Counsel of
New DIRK, etc. Untermyer's state
rnent was inordinately long and was
a sharp, in my opinion, very cleverlyi
written and well-grounded attack
on the American AnglephiIe press
for the protection of the German |
oficial personalities in the United
states, and particularly in defense
Of the logic of my proceedings.
Mr.. Untermyer insisted particu-
larry in such statement on un-
seIfsh grounds, as the foregoing
shows, because my departure had
10 be utilized in any circumstances
10 the advantage of the officials re-
naming behind especially the Ger-l
man Ambassador. !
At the last minute l decided in |
elaboration with Chief Privy Gov
crnment Counillor Albert, to make /
merely a short and less sharp state |
r,ent, which was an extract of Un-
tormyer's long one in the personal /
interest of my own greater peace, !
md confoFmably to my very SELL
sacrihcfng time in New York ..