THE TABLET A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER AND REVIEW

ESTABLISHED 1840 REGISTERED AS A NEWSPAPER

VOL. 170 No. 5082

LONDON OCTOBER 2nd, 1937

SIXPENCE

IN THIS ISSUE

CATHOLICISM IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND

A Review of Progress by Philip Hughes

HITLER AND THE EARLY NAZIS

A First-hand Impression by V. de Korostovetz

THE NEW ENCYCLICAL ON THE ROSARY

A Summary

DOUGLAS JERROLD’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

AND

SHEILA KAYE-SMITH’S APOLOGIA

Full-length Reviews

Full Contents List on page 436

THE WORLD WEEK BY WEEK Diplomatic Moves and Countermoves

The Anglo-French diplomatic solidarity is being maintained both at Geneva, where Mr. Walter Elliot and M. Delbos are resisting the demands of Sr. del Vayo, and in London, where the joint note to Italy has been drawn up. The French, in short, have been so far successful in including themselves in the British Italian conversations. The argument that they have used has been the growing danger that the Chautemps’ Government will be wrecked by division in face of the growing Left pressure for effective efforts to save Valencia. This pressure, of which Sr. Caballero has been speaking openly in Paris, is very real, because the position in Valencia is very desperate. Negrin and Prieto only hold their position by continually saying that they, with their moderate appearances, will be able to secure the essential, belated, aid of the great democracies of France and Britain. If they cannot “deliver the goods” they will be swept aside and the last chance of securing unity inside Red Spain will have gone. With each day that passes the attempt to stampede Geneva into resolutions which the Valencia Government could then exploit, grows more forlorn. But just as Negrin and Prieto have to have something to show their more extreme elements, so has the Cabinet of M. Chautemps, and the British, who are most anxious that he shall not be overthrown, are lending a certain amount of countenance to the French. It has been convenient to enable Mussolini to appear in Germany as the firm, but quite voluntary friend of the Third Reich. His visit to Germany led to a further joint statement of the desire and the resolve of Germany and Italy to maintain the peace. They used language about the glorious heritage of European civilisation, language which should belong also to the British and French. We should be in a much stronger position if we accepted this basic contention that there is such a heritage to be preserved and made it plain that we were equally determined that it should be preserved. Such language would be highly unpalatable to M. Litvinoff, whose whole raison d'être is the destruction of that heritage, but it would then enable us inside a strictly European framework to make our proposals and our counter-proposals without making a present of the anti-Communist argument to the two authoritarian powers. It is quite vain to imagine that any French Government would thus alienate a potential ally, and it is indeed the measure of French anxiety that French opinion should have come to think of the Soviet as a military ally. But Britain is in a different case, highly concerned not to be manoeuvred into a “ democratic” camp. The Japanese Bombings

The aerial bombardments in which the Japanese have been indulging at Nanking and Canton, and an attack on a Chinese fishing fleet, have led to vigorous denunciations from all over the world. Governments have protested. There has been a League resolution,