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Fourteen years ago Margaret Sanger made a trip to Japan where she preached birth control. Just how memorable this 1922 visitation was became evident last week when the editors of Tokyo’s big Nichi Nichi thus headlined a preposterous dispatch about a Chinese woman giving birth to decuplets: MRS. SANGER WILL BE ASHAMED.
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