The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-26
UNTERMYER STILL
 SERVING GERMANS, PALMER CHARGES
The Attorney General Quotes Boy-Ed Reports in Present. ing His Charges in Formal
 Statement
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Dy AssOcmte0 KreSo
 Washington, January 25.--Attor- ney General Palmer tonight charged Samuel Untermycr, New
 York attorney, with acting "fn the
 German interestv and ,"wfth sim- ply serving his old clients" in his
 recent criticisms of MT. PnImcr's
 conduct of the offices of nlien
 property custodian and Attorney
 General.
 The Attorney General presented his charges in formal statement with quotations from a report taken from Captain Boy-Ed. former naval attache of the German embassy here, upon his capture by the British in Palestine. and from the diary of Heinrich r. Albert. former chief privy councillor of the German embassy. The report of Cap tain Boy-Ed. as made public by Mir. Palmer. referred to MT. Untermyer as "the unpaid judicial and legal-politlcal advisor of the German embassy" while Dr. Albert, in his diary. Is quoted as describing a meeting brought about for business reasons at Mir. Untermy- CTS estate at Greystone, along the Hudson river.
 "The malicious reiteratfOn by
 Samuel Untermyer of the baseless rumors and false charges which the friends of Germany insistentIy circulate about the work of the
 nIien property custodian" Mir. Pale mer snid. "would not call for any reply if his recent activities had not somewhat Obscured in the pub- lie mind his earlier connections which make his motives plain. He desires to undo significant part of the war's achievement. He wns viEorously opposed to the govern ment's pOlicy--as laid down by the Congress- and carried out by the executfves-dn regard to d>emy- owned property. He refers to enemy owned concerns in this country as properties of these un- fortunate people whose sad plight he always sought to alleviate. HIS EXACT STATUS His exact status, despite his equivo- cations and denials with respect to these unfortunate people-the Ger mans--is best shown by an official re- port of Captain Boy-Ed ad- dressed to the chief of German admi- ralty staff In explaining a statement to the American people which he issued on being expelled from this country -Boy-Ed said:
 "'Every statement was drawn up. in | its original form by counsel, Samuel Untermyer. He was, at the time of 1 my stay in New York. the unpaid judi cial and legal-political advisor to the 1 imperial embassy. He Is one of the most important. if not the greatest, counsel of the United States, the pre- sumptive successor Of MT. Gerard, If he should leave his ambassadorial post. l a former very influential member of the democratic party of New York state, personal friend of Warburg, federal reserve bank. of the secretary 1 of justice, the chief state counsel of New York, etc. Untermyer's statement was inordinately long and was a sharp, in my opinion, very cleverly written and well-grounded attack on the Amer ican Anglophile press for the protec- ton of the German official personali- ties in the United States, and particu- larly in defense of the logic of my proceedings. MT. Untermyer insisted particularly on such statement on unselfish grounds, as the foregoing shows. because my departure had to 1 be utilized in any circumstances to ths advantage of the officials remaining behind, especially, the German ambas- sador. At the last minute decided in colla boration with Chief Privy Govern- ment Councillor Albert to make mercs I ly a short and less sharp statement. ] which was an extract of Untermyer's s long one. in the personal interest of my own greater peace. and conform fabiy to my Very self-sacrificing time l in New York
 His true status Is again shown in the handwritten diary of Chief Privy 1 Councillor Albert, representing the Central Einkauf Gesellschaft in this country. and today under secretary of state of the German republics: 1 IS AGAIN SHOWN "In other respects this Easter fes- tiyal passed off somewhat anxiously sInce at noon was summoned to 1 iPlainfie1d to Hagedorns and in the eve
 ming to Untermyer at his estate at Greystone.
 "I drove there and had no reason to repent this meeting brought about for business reasons. Untermyer is
 personally by no means an -unpleasan, Individual, shrewd, very familiar with political affairs, and in . busfness sense extraordinarily well up-to-date
 He has wonderful estate in the
 neighborhood of Yonkers on tho heights of the Hudson. Opposite arc
 the palisades. of the other bank. oyel which the sun went down in wonderful
 clearness. Conversation on the pre-
 vention of the export of ammunition