G. B. S. AND GANDHI
Mr Bernard Shaw, as an octogenarian, has been advising India how to celebrate Mr Gandhis sixty-eighth birthday. In a message to the ,r Gandhi number” of an Indian Nationalist newspaper, he complained that 68 is too young for a celebration. “They did not begin persecuting me in that way until I was 70, \and then they nearly killed me with tender congratulations. If you want to do real service to Mr Gandhi, ordain all over India that henceforth nobody shall remind him of his age." But when Mr Shaw’s own “persecution” began he had a very different complaint. He was entertained on July 26, 1926—his seventieth birthday—by the Parliamentary Socialist Party. Mr Ramsay MacDonald proposed his health. Replying. Mr Shaw complained bitterly that the proceedings were not being broadcast. This, a question in th« House showed later, was because he had refused to avoid " argumentative political controversy” in'ms speech.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23365, 3 December 1937, Page 16
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