The Archive · 1925

A Chance to Do Business

After the earthquake when Amer-lowered all immigration and otter restriction barriers for a while, Mr, O'Conroy thought it an oppor tune time to sell some of the carve ings of old Japan, These are known 4s inva, and, loaming that Mr, Sugihara possessed a splendid col tion of them, he got into communi: Yon with him.

'The exact nature of the contract is not known at present and will perhaps be revealed only in Court, but 'Mr. Conroy, accompanied by' his Tapanese wife, made what was al most a triumphal march right across the United States, the culminating, point of this coast-to-coast journey being the presentation of a valuable inro to Mr. Calvin Coolidge at the White House, The rift in the Conroy-Sugihara lute seems to have first broken out fan Francisco. Mr, O'Conroy wrote to Mr, Sugihara that he knew the Prince of that, by presenting the Prince with inva, otherwise closed doors would open with magical hospitality, facil tating a rapid sale of the ire and bringing in a perfect harvest of good American and British gold. "The Prince has been especially kind to hie," one of the passages in Mr, O'Conroy's letter to Mr, Sugihara ran, "and has written a beautiful letter to me."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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