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Josephine Baker, the St. Louis-born singer who grew up to be the light brown toast of Paris, was causing a new kind of sensation on a lecture tour of South America. From her lecture platform last week Speaker Baker cried: "The United States is not a free country . . . I do not envy those who have to live there . . ." The only country, she said, where "Negroes are treated like dogs is the 'model democracy,' the United States." The anti-American Argentine press gave the Baker line as big...
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