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...Receiving the famed Indian poet, Sir Rabindranath Tagore. ¶ Announcing that the Treasury Department regulation against imports of convict-made goods was not intended to start a trade conflict with Russia. ¶ Conferring at the White House with Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic Senate floor leader, concerning expeditious passage of relief and appropriations...
Prominent villagers in the hamlet of Balaton-fured, Hungary, puzzled last week over an intense, anxious cablegram signed by Poet-Sage Sir Rabindranath Tagore of Santiniketan, Bengal, India. When they had made out what was wanted the villagers went out and examined a sapling. "It is shedding its leaves," they cabled back to Tagore, "but its sap is healthy and its life seems assured." Four years ago the sapling was planted as a "Hope Tree" by the Sage. He is supposed to believe that the planter of such a tree will live for at least five years after the planting...
Perhaps Sir Rabindranath Tagore's "disgust with 'the prejudiced and despicable American view of things and people Asiatic' " (TIME, May 6, p. 48) may be explained by the following fact...
...Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, playwright, mystic, last week abandoned his intended tour of the U. S., sailed for home from San Francisco. Reason: disgust with
...more special purpose is to draw the widest possible attention to certain aspects of our western civilization which are crying out for consideration. . . . The older countries [invited to the convention] offer something of a challenge to the voice and speed of our western civilization. . . ." The contributions were not startling. Rabindranath Tagore deplored the constitutional western tendency to material thinking. India's Laurence Frederic Rushbrook Williams, educator, stressed Empire thinking. Of most interest to U. S. citizens was the suggestion that U. S. cinemas be prohibited or strictly censored because of their sex motifs. Also suggested: prohibiting or curtailing sale...