Someone has been pulling Dr. Tagore's leg ang all India—that is, European India—is laughing at the joke. Dr. Tagore who is at present on a visit to Europe expressed his views very freely and somewhat calogistically on the subject of Fascism and the Fascist leader,!
Mussolini, Judge of India's surprise when the following announcement was made in a press telegram purporting to be a message received from the poet from Rome:—"TI left for awhile Santiniketan and India to fly from the fierce blaze of world celebrity and seek the shelter of obscurity in Rome, the remote corner Jof the world. But renown has hounded me even while Tam under the aegis of Signor Mussolini, that gentle hermit who, like myself, shuns fame and whose life and its message is interior. My object in sending toy you the encloseq report of an inter-View with Alde Sorari is to seek the assistance of the Associated Press fand my friends in Bengal in my ing efforts to stifle fame which-sucking out of me my life blood. For this Nirvana which I have sought and prayed for during the rest of my days, I would gladly give jup eternity which destiny has already allotted to my soul even as gave up my knighthood for which,! by the way, world celebrity has no nse, Accept a weary poet's Blessings.—Rabindranath Tagore." Needices to say, the pact has denied the! authorship of the letter.
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