Show W N J uZl A t I T I CAN CAN- CANni ni J A Jor r- r rAD AND AD A rUIT CAN ALbU ALSO Ug hIt UK A fly 11 lly T X l I terIce lr Ice i W WASHINGTON March 1 29 20 A Washington major Poet has come conic to 10 Washing ton tor In n Hie th person of Ambassador Ambas Clau Claudel el of ot l but ho h snot Is I not first firlit t member of ot the foreign diplomatic corps hero here who has hail an c the Iho muse The most successful ot of th the tho oth others ers era arc are S Sanor nor Ur VI Don Doa limes J Freye envoy II nary ry front from Bolivia and Senor VI Dr Deli 1011 Antonio the iho handsome hand hand- some ona an and nd i Intellectual eo counsellor n ollor and charge ad Interim or the Mexican embassy And to tell III you ou first of oC a 3 most t dt-t rUns rUns- poetical excursion let let ug u uBi g g- g i B-i back into the past life liCe of Dr Leal who once put nut over oler a 11 devilishly Ingenious hoax whIch made the time more molo recent Cleo no Kno and G Gallery Jery 1 seq Bel e m in like kindergarten w work ork An l Ir came camo to l pass SS while Ur Dr D An- An An was wan secretary ly ot of o the Iho Mexican l tin can legation In Santiago antiago Chile ChilI Suddenly the literary world of oC this hemisphere the I speaking Spanish ip portion of ot It was stirred by the appear appear- appearance appear appear-anc ance ancco of or an anthology of or tie tiie ye a rious works of oC o l 1 noshan the famous Camous poet of oC o Afghanistan rb There re was a a lengthy face preface and a picture ot o a a po- po pa trl patriarchal l 01 oil oll 1 follow fellow who looked uk an oriental philosopher well in the tho nineties The he book 1 U Led id to be bUilL front four books hooks of poems oy Dy thu 1110 J t- t big Ing ine of love lovu 1111 vcr e and and relIgious rc poems poem The Time he ot of course c was LotI Castro but only knew that the author wall also and ana that old olG not was purly mythical TIme Jho photograph of was wall that of 1111 an leed lel poultry dealer Tho The first t edition edillon or of o time the nn an- an sold out rapid rapidly I Castro cal r Leal nho ho had J e expected to pay for lilt rim fun broke o even el on 01 the 1 cx pe-ilses pe and would have ha money mODey had he not sent so o Cre Cre copies through the AmerIcas and hud 11 he lIe not finally contested c cd Many eom complimentary letten l i caine congratulatIng him 1 oh Oh out such u a I work ol of high literary merit Came Caine some 1 Prin prin cl lilly from front the United States tates de daring that the they had lonG Ions th poetry of ot old ohl HOlihan 1 wa wasn't nt It that eone hal ham filially Introduced him to the new Dew There was argument as to te 1 should or 01 should not no have had tlc tIe Nobel prize for foi poetry the year car before an and l the th climax eanie anh when Chilean cu au U began to Include ude some Borne ot of stuff in textbooks along the tIme lines of homer Hilmer ter cr- cr arm and hak Apparently Lent Castro thet thel either began to 10 realize Jug his diplo diplo- diplomatic diplomatic matic responsibIlities Ho Ito de- de decided decided de decided at lilY army rate tate to expose the thc show lie He wrote a 0 letter to Chilean newspapers telling telling- nil all The of I Karez poe poems i have not recovered their pop PO popularity Leal however has baa also aho publIshed nn authentic anthology or of Mexican l poetry hc poetry Tho Ono One Onehundred II hundred Beat Deat Mexican s and II a study stUd and tran translation la ot of Bernard Dornald Shaw as us well its as u varIous stunt stunt-a of ot Mexico In with with lc the tho Mexican 1 poet he published an anthology of oC Funch and British poets who diet died In tho the World war S Incidental Incidentally the Mexican II am- am 1 to Guatemala Is regarded OJ an Mexico's l foremost poet thu only two Mexican l embassies nr ar well supplied with cultural talent the Bolivian minister I Is described as one of ot the poets who created tho the modern movement In inthe inthe the Americas a member er of o the Iho trilogy trilogy ogy osy which also alBO Included Huben Varlo of ot Nicaragua and aud Leopold ot or Argentina in the ear ear ear- early early lY nineties these theBe three poets be- be began be began gan to show a II new lleW tendency which America LAtin AmerIca as a fresh Cresh and more exact ot of orld orld sentiment This Influence will toll felt In England I and the Sta States tes at a about bout the same time |