Word: westrick
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Trade Counselor Gerhardt Alois Westrick, Assistant Manhattan Consul Friedrich Ried...
...country scuttled two official Nazis, bound for Japan: Dr. Friedrich Ried, assistant German consul in New York City, subject of State Department inquiry, and Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick, German trade counselor to the U. S., indignant over being made an object of suspicion...
...beam its chairman had attracted by seeming to be friends with Nazi Germany. All were agreed that the New York Herald Tribune's three-week-old revelation of the connection between Rieber and Hitler's cumbersome ambassador-off-the-record to U. S. businessmen, Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick (TIME, Aug. 12), threatened to hit Texas Corp. in the cash register. Those who knew Cap Rieber were sure he was no pro-Nazi, although he had been keen to do business with Germany before the war. But they also felt his indiscretions and bad handling of the press...
Said Harold A. Callan, Manhattan lawyer who leased the Scarsdale house to Dr. Westrick: "I have asked the Westricks to leave my home as soon as possible. . . . If I had known that he ... was representing the German Government, I would not have closed the deal...
Lawyer Callan happens to work for the firm of Shearman & Sterling, one of whose clients is Captain Rieber's Texas Corp. At week's end, Dr. Westrick packed his trunks without haste, made ready to move out of Lawyer Callan's house "as soon as possible." Next week, on Aug. 12, his three-months lease expires...