Timothy or Taid or Taig Conroy or O'Conroy (1883–1935): ‘The “Best Authority, East and West” on anything concerning Japan'

For a while after the publication in July 1933 of his book, The Menace of Japan, Timothy Conroy was treated by the British press as an ‘inside’ source on Japan and her intentions in East Asia. Conroy’s own high opinion of his scholarship was not widely echoed outside Fleet Street, but the explosion of Japanese military activity in China in the 1930s and Conroy’s early death in November 1935 lent credibility to his writings and a retrospective purpose to his chaotic life.