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ee RE r peer) i. a me el ah en, cea nelle ie ee ee 1 A tees = en, ee ee Pe ate Rig ee.” wiylione tng, - Aor i —_— oo \ newspaper, "O Globo," dated August 29, 1952. . COPLES DESTROYED rte wi 1 DEC 1L, ‘1964 | , MID a 1952 et ' EP 10 \ ) nea ED. tag es ate > id « Rio de Janeiro, Brazil m September l, 1952 Director, FBI a, 0 ‘Re: JOSEPHINE BAKER - ° FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS Dear Sir: Attached is a clipping from the Rio de Janeiro afteyfréon ~ The article, with two photos of JOSEPHINi BAKER, is headed "Josephine Baker A Servicgo De Uma Grande Csusa" (Josephine cuker at the Service of a Great Cause). JOSEPHINE BAKER is the United States night club and musical comedy star who went to Vreance in the '20s and ‘became a big attraction there. It is believed that she became a French citizen. It will be recalled that some months ago, when she was in the United States, she became involved in an incident at the New York night club, The Stork Club, in which sne accused the management of racial dis- crimination. In some way, Walter Winchell, the newspaper colun- nist, came into the picture in opposition to her. The writer knows of the incident only through sparse newspaper attention given it here in Brazil. The attached article pélls of her intention to.form = on Rtn Awe Tanatrnan heanch wf +h YearntTd Asasatatkinan Agntuat Ranital ee ee en oe Oe anced Sad ni al! VIA ek PR ke aise Bibel . det Led and Religious Discrimination’/ (Newspapers September 7.1952, - unnounce that the event “took place.) The president of-the organi- zation in Rio is to be AIFONS RINOS-OG-TELLO-PTANCO , sponsor of | y an anti-racial law, and preséntly a imember- of the ‘Federal House of Deputies, “and” just named House leader of the UDN (Unido. = Nemocratica Nacional - National Democratic Union - conservative party in opposition to the present government). The articl Bele! JOSEPHINE BAKER, who is pre Q se | D T- @eN0g gy 6a —95934-— . RL an soe _. . fs ~ e * ‘yf fre . * A ait 4 WU ULID Wad . 7 = OOS ARES