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Show The Dreams of My Heart 209 ment in Japan. The town was a favorite resort, the site of the great bronze image of Buddha, cast in 1252 and fashioned from ninety tons of bronze. (Harold marveled at the "great feat" of the casting.) Attending a Rotary Club meeting, Harold learned that Mrs. Sanger was at the leading hotel, so he arranged for Madelyn and him to have breakfast with her and her inter preter, Chiecko Hata. Here is what Madelyn wrote in her diary about the "exciting" encounter-"a bolt from heaven": Mrs. Sanger is about my size, carried herself with spirited She wears her light hair somewhat full over the forehead and drawn back above her ears. She has even fea tures, and alert but calm eyes. There is a general air of assur ance about her, but no arrogance. We walked downstairs, I erectness. holding her arm, she talking pleasantly and brightly all the while. She wore a neat navy Shantung dress with a ribband of pique pulled through the collar on one side. She also wore green woolen stole around her shoulders, but one end passed under her arm and over the shoulder again. a To remember her conversation again: She was in Japan for try to arrange for an International Planned Parenthood Meeting in Tokyo, for next year. It is a great undertaking, because Japan has no money for it. But she thinks it is the thing to do. When she first came to Tokyo in 1922 she was invited, I two purposes: one to believe, by a woman's organization. At that time she brought her 12 year old son because she couldn't bear to put an ocean between them; she had recently lost a little girl. When she came again in 1949, she was invited by the government, and she was the only woman ever to appear before members of the national Diet, the upper house. She said they asked her recommendations and suggestions, and accepted her word as law. When I asked her the second purpose of her visit, she said that had to be a quiet one. There is a new contraceptive, administered by a syringe into the arm, that may be valid for one month after injection. It has been tried successfully in Massachusetts, but now has to be tried on a large scale. She |
