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(continued) bIc 1942 she h or to the efrec at Pearl Buck had spoken to President Roosevelt regarding freedom for India and that the President had told Mrs. Buck that if enough citizens petitioned him he would make it a point to discuss the matter with the British Government. ey: 2 bIe » furnished a letter on 3/3/42 at c ed attention to the 2/2 2 issue of "Sepia Socialite", a Negro weekly newspaper published in New Orleans, La., that contained a report of a speech by Pearl Buck in New York. (Date not given.) This was headlined "Pearl Buck tells New York Audience, ' 'We Belong with Hitler'; Warns ‘Racial Prejudice Must Go'". ‘The article carried the story of the speech by Pearl Buck in New York at a luncheon sponsored by the "New York Herald-Tribune" and American Book- seller Association. Excerpt from her speech set out.