Word: westrick
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Ever since last April, a new and special type of German Ambassador has been making calls in the U. S. His name: Gerhardt Alois Westrick. His title: Commercial Counselor to the German Embassy. His job: Hitler's ambassador-off-the-record to U. S. businessmen...
...lawyer) Westrick arrived in the U. S. through the back door from Japan. He brought with him his dark, beautiful wife, and his two boys, Klaus, 9, and Peter, 6. They put up at Manhattan's swank Plaza Hotel. For several weeks, short, stocky, snow-haired, direct-speaking, wound-limping Dr. Westrick did his business from there...
...ambassador, Dr. Westrick had one strike on him before he arrived. His former law partner in Berlin was none other than famed Dr. Heinrich Albert, who served here during World War I as sidekick of Provocateur Franz von Papen until his brief case, loaded with incriminating evidence, was stolen from him by another spy on New York's Sixth Avenue Elevated, and turned over to Government and press. After the war. Dr. Albert returned to Berlin, was briefly in the Reich Chancellery (1920) and later Minister of the Treasury, lived down his memorable Merkle. He built up a good...
...service this clientele, Dr. Albert and Junior Partner Westrick used to commute between Berlin and New York. But by the time Hitler took over. Dr. Westrick had not been important enough in the Weimar regime to be objectionable to the new. He got by. Early this year, when Hitler began thinking of his post-war relations with the U. S., he logically dug Lawyer Westrick out of the pigeonhole marked: "familiar with the inside of a U. S. businessman's lunch club, controllable." No beer-hall Nazi is Dr. Westrick, but simply a scout and atmosphere-conjurer, sent over...
...last week Planter Westrick had become something of a public issue. After the management of the Plaza decided that his further residence there might involve it in the preliminaries of World War III, New York's untiring anti-Nazi Columnist Walter Winchell uncovered him at the Carlyle Hotel (Madison & 76th St.) under the name of Dr. Webster...