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Note From Abroad

JUN 01, 1950
Mechanical gods
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Dancer Pearl Primus, in the course of her lecture demonstration on African dance forms given in May at the American Museum of Natural History, has relayed a message from Africa to the United States. The people of the African bush wish to assure the people of America, reports Miss Primus, that mechanical gods such as they understand atomic bombs to be will not harm people unless people wish to be harmed.

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