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Smedley to Brundin, December 24, 1928; Smedley to Sanger, February 22, May 12, June 13, 1929; Smedley to Gilbert Roe, January 14, April 12, June 5, 1929 (Box H8); Battle Hymn, p. 43; Smedley to Lennon, February 8, 1929. For British intelligence, see P. C. Joshi Collection, nos. 1929-7, reports of special agent Halland; also British Shanghai police files in F.B.I. 100-68282-1B32 (Exhibits), for more fragmentary references. On Chatto's marriage to a cloistered Irishwoman, see footnote on p. 70. Smedley was also questioned by the American consulate-general in Shanghai.

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Interview with Percy Chen. It is worth noting that Smedley did not attend the Sixth Congress of the Third Communist International, which met in Moscow in July and August, 1928—as was later alleged (see footnote, pp. 142-43). Smedley spent July and August in Paris visiting Josephine Bennett and making final revisions to Daughter of Earth.

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What distinguished Daughter of Earth (U.S. edition) from autobiography was the following: personal names and many geographical locations were changed; to give the reader a sense of history from an anarchist perspective, the false suggestion is made that Smedley was in the Ludlow, Colorado, area at the time of the massacre and in San Diego participating in the Free Speech Movement; in order to disguise the identity of her Indian comrades and their contacts with the Soviet Union, New York remains the setting for the latter part of the story, which deals with the Indian nationalists.

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David Friday (1876-1945) was probably Smedley's most respectable American lover. At the time he was a banker, a professor of political economy at the New School for Social Research in New York and a lecturer with the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Friday frequently testified before legislative bodies and would become the president (1938—39) and chairman of the board (1940—41), and a director since its inception of the National Bureau of Economic Research {The National Cyclopaedia [New York, 1948], vol. 34, p. 137).

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Smedley to Sanger, May 18, June 22, July 7, August 21, October 26, 30, 1928; and to Ernest Brundin, March 22, June 27, 1928; the Gilbert Roe papers are strangely mute, although an earlier inventory left with the Wisconsin State Historical Society suggests the former existence of a manuscript, »Struggle of Earth« and perhaps correspondence

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The experience produced an article, »Germany's Red Front,« Nation 127 (August 1,1928): 116-17; see also Smedley to Sanger, February 21, 1928.

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Smedley wrote two articles for Birth Control Review on the Berlin clinics: June 1928, March 1929. See also James F. Cooper, »Birth Control Movement in Germany« (October 1929): 288 — 89, as well as Sanger's own brief account in her Autobiography, pp. 388 — 90. Details are abundant in Smedley-Sanger correspondence, February to October, 1928. A recent study is R. P. Newman, »Working Class Birth Control in Wilhelmine Germany,« Comparative Studies in Society and History 20, no. 3 (July 1978): 273.

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Karin Michaelis's introduction to the Danish translation, Run en Kvinde, of Daughter of Earth (Copenhagen, 1933). In India Bakar married a doctor and became a prominent Hyderabad politician and parliamentarian, serving in the 1950s and 1960s on a number of United Nations commissions. He died in the early 1970s.

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