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...TREASURER: Walther Leisler Kiep's confession that money was placed in secret bank accounts led to the current scandal...
...Manhattan press-agent firm of Carl Byoir & Associates. Carl Byoir, onetime publisher of the Havana Post and Telegram, developed to his full stature under George Creel in the Wartime propaganda service. From Publicist Dickey the committee learned that in 1933 the Byoir agency had received $4.000 from Consul Kiep to "explain" Hitlerite anti-Semitism in publicity releases. Since then the firm has handled a $6,000-a-month campaign publicizing German Railways, travel in Germany. Of the $6,000 monthly fee, said Mr. Dickey, $1.750 went to George Sylvester Viereck...
Presumably Dr. Kiep was under orders from Berlin to keep the new Ambassador from giving an interview, for he chartered a tug, raced down the harbor to beat the newshawks to the Bremen, dashed into the Luther suite, locked the door. When importunate reporters were finally admitted, they beheld Dr. Kiep standing guard over a chunky elderly man whose eyes swept the floor in terrible embarrassment. Ambassador Luther kept saying: "Good morning, gentlemen. I am happy to meet the Press-I am happy...
...bold reporter asked if Dr. Luther was being taken off in a tug to avoid a Jewish anti-Hitler demonstration in Manhattan. Striding forward, Dr. Kiep heatedly exclaimed: "No- No- No- Herr Luther is in a hurry to get to Washington. He has said all he cares to say in this statement." Dr. Kiep pulled a typewritten sheet out of his own pocket. "Here, I'll read it to you. 'Diplomatic etiquet pre-venting...
...glad to be in the U. S. and that Germany was "just as normal and orderly as could be desired." What every reporter on the Bremen saw in it was the power of Adolf Hitler to stifle all opinions but his own. Last week he dismissed Consul-General Kiep's colleague in Manhattan, rotund, jovial Consul Paul Schwarz, for not being a Nazi...