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[German Trade Envoy i Here to Negotiate I Economic Program 0 Dr. Weslrick Says Reich J Expects Peace That Will Permit Expansion SBr the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 13.—Germany . txpects peace in the near future and plans to enter into an economic * arrangement with the United States based upon the Hull reciprocal trade c policy, her newly accredited diplo ic matte commercial representative t laid today. T, Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick, com mercial counsellor to the German L Embassy, said Germany was hopeful of a peace that would permit com f mercial expansion and prosperity * throughout the world. His purpose here is to prepare the way for an economic settlement between Ger-T many and the United Skgtes, he eaid. adding: “I am hopeful of peace soon be 3 cause Germany is not going to ask anything of England or Prance ex *• cept free access to raw materials „ on a competitive basis and free trade and foreign exchange throughout the world along the lines of the J Hull plan. "A major step in such a trade arrangement would be the provision ' that United States investors in Ger n man plants would be paid interest J on a United States dollar basis.” , Is Leading Trade Expert. * Dr. Westrick is a leading German economic and trade expert and law j, yer, partner of Dr. Heinrich Albert, * former chancellor and finance min „ ister of Germany. Dr. Westrick also £ is a friend and associate of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, German minister t without portfolio, who has been re cently reported to be in this country j? secretly. "I do not believe Dr. Schacht is j. In the United States," Dr. Westrick J said. "When peace comes and a »- world economic conference is ar l ranged. Dr. Schacht will have to *; coifie to work out foreign exchange problems. “As you people well know, Ger r many cannot continue barter in - definitely and will have to go back to free trade and free foreign ex * change, and Dr. Schacht is the man £ With the brains to arrange it.” Dr. Westrick scoffed at reports current in Wall Street that he. Dr. Schacht. and others were negotiat ing directly with some leading " United States commercial firms on the basis of providing foreign ex change to enable an increase of shipments from the United States to Germany, via Siberia, to beat the British blockade of Germany. Germans Not Fooled. ‘ “We in Germany do not fool our eelves,” he said. "There is very little likelihood of increased shipments to Germany via the Pacific while the war lasts. The Trans-Siberian 1 Railroad, over which I have just * traveled, is working, but that is about all. Any notion of greatly increased shipments over it now is in the realm of fantasy. “We see little immediate like lihood of increasing dollar exchange to enable Germany to purchase more goods in the United States, and we do not see any hope of developing barter trade with this country. “All we can do now, and all 1 am here to do, is to nurse things along until peace comes, which I hope may be within a few months. “Then we hope for a world eco nomic conference, in which all grievances will be settled once and for all, without vindictiveness any , where, so that we can have pros perity and peace for good. “We believe that once we have re , moved the foreign exchange and raw j material problems, that it will be * very difficult for the politicians to P ~ . . GERMAN TRADE TROUBLE-SHOOTER—Hans Thomsen (left), German Charge d’Affaires, brought to the State Department G. A. Westrick, the new German Commercial Counselor, who an nounced his mission Is “to see that economic ties between the United States and the Reich are not broken” by the war. —A. P. Photo. lead people Into wars because there will be prosperity. “The general policies laid down in the Hull reciprocal trade agree ments are the policies Germany hopes to follow after the peace in relation to the United States and the rest of the world. We want to get rid of the barter system as soon as we can.” Dr. Westrick Is Widely Known in America BERLIN, April 13 (A').—Gerhard A. Westrick is a widely known in ternational lawyer who left the Reich some months ago apparently Dn a secret mission to win sympathy for the German side in the war. Dr. Westrick represented various American banking and industrial Arms and visited America frequently before the outbreak of the war. He has many friends in the United States. He is a law partner of Heinrich Albert, who was commprcial at tache- to the German Embassy at Washington during the World War. So far as can be learned here, Dr. Westrick apparently was given dip lomatic status in order to facilitate his movements. -- ~ Hew would you like cosh for all the useless trinkets that are lying about the house. Selingers will pay C?i Highest Cash Prices B for all your gld gold or J|_j| silver rings, pins, watches, /JrpHJ *ven sold. However, Government spokesmen reachable tonight said they did not know what his present status is. Britain and France May Place Orders For Fastest Bombers Permission Is Given; New, Plane Credited With 400 M.P.H. Speed By the Associated Press. Great Britain and France were given official permission by the War Department yesterday to place or ders for a new-model Douglas at tack bomber, believed to be the world’s fastest of the type. 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