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asked him whether for this very reason he was not afraid
that the enemy might be buying it indirectly. He said
he thought this was not possible and he explained also that the enemy had large supplies of antimony, and that the particular quality he was now selling, as "Japanese and Chinese had before the war been known as "Hungarian
Antimony"."
Personally I should be inclined to think that al- though Mesors. Mitsui & Company would certainly not have mowingly gold any antimony to dealers who would have exported 1 indirectly to the enemy, their desire to obtain a good price for their metal led them to adopt a policy which facilitated matters for any one who wished so export to a neutral country with ultimate enemy des- tination.
I
took the opportunity of Mir. Yasuda's visit to ask for his views about Mr. E.P.Earle to whom the German ir of Otto Reimers have made such large shipments of opper. Mr. Yasuda said that Mr. Earle was a very rich an, who has made most of his money in Canadian mines,
nd that it was generally thought amongst metal men in w York, though it could not be proved, that he was ic of the regular intermediaries for German trade in opper. ile said that on one occasion Mr. Earle had trid buy manganese from him but he had refused to entertan
offer on the round that he might be trading with e enemy.
r. Earle had then approached the head of tsui & Company, but his proposals were again rejected. On another occasion, before Italy had taken part the war, Mr. Yasuda suid that a German-American had ced them to arrange for shipments of graphite to Cenoa, they had also refused to entertain this suggestion.
On the whole Mr. Yaçúda gave me the impression that sre. Mitsui & Company tried their utmost not to have dealings with firms who might be suspected of being
connected