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[document] How-Martyn updates Sanger on the happenings in the birth control movement in England, the Archbishop of Canturbury's support of birth control.
[person] Amolak Ram Mehta (1894-1986) was a Western-trained public health physician who served as India's Minister of Health.
[archival-collections] The MSPP has approx. 80-90 original documents, as well as books and pamphlet owned,signed by or about Sanger
[law] On July 23, 1920, France passed a law prohibiting the sale of birth control devices and the distribution of birth control or abortion propaganda.
[organization] The Johannesburg Race Welfare Society was founded in 1931 to provide access to birth control information to the poor.