Rabindranath in England -5th time (contd-3)

On 14th April 1921 (1st Baishakh, 1328) - Rabindranath passed the 1st day of Bengali year in 1328 in London with his son, daughter-in-law, and grand-daughter Majushree. The details of his programme was not known.
On 2nd Baishakh, 15 April, Bomanji took him to House of Commons to attend a lunch with Trade Union leader Ben Spoor and others.

(Benjamin Charles Spoor (2 June 1878 – 22 December 1928) was a British Labour Party politician. He took a particular interest in India and in the Movement for Colonial Freedom.

Born in Witton Park, County Durham, he went to Elmfield College, York, and came from a family of Primitive Methodists. An engineer by training, he later went into business as a builder's merchant. Before entering politics he was a lay preacher in the Methodist Church.

At the 1918 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the Bishop Auckland constituency, and held the seat until his death at the age of 50. In parliament, he found himself at odds with many Labour MPs and contemplated joining the Liberals. He was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Whip in 1924, when he was made a Privy Councillor)

After lunch Montagu came to see him. Having learnt the plan of Viswa Bharati he became inspired and informed him that he would write letters to the next Viceroy Lord Reading and others about this. Rabindranath wrote to Andrews; " My has met with a hearty response in England,"

On 16th April, Rabindranath, Rathindranat, Pratima Devi, Manjushree Devi etc and eight others from Croyden airport went to Paris by a plane named  Goliath. Albert Kann was present in the airport to welcome Raboindranath. A video photograph was taken of the plane when Rabindranath descended from the plane.

They all started for Atour Du Mand. This was the first experience of plane journey of Rabindranath Tagore.