THE TABLET A W eekly N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v ie w
DUM V O B IS GRATULAMUR ANIM OS E T IA M ADDIMUS UT IN IN C C E PT IS V E S T R I S CONSTANTER M ANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 157. No. 4,747.
L o n d o n , May 2, 1931.
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R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e Gen e r a l P o s t O f f i c i a s a N e w s p a p e r
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News and Notes ................... 573 £884,948,000 577 Serbian O rthodoxy and
Anglican Comprehensiveness 578 Some Aspects of P robation W o rk 578 Books Received ................... 580 Reviews :
The Economic Tangle . . . 580 Gems of Mediaeval Poetry 581 Some “ F i r s t L a d i e s ” . . . 581 Evelina ............................... 582 Sum erian Contracts . . . 582 F in i s D iscoronat Opus 583
CONTENTS
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New Books a n d Music . . . 584 F rom The Tablet of N inety
Y ears Ago
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More New Churches . . . 584 Sermons fo r the Times . . . 585 Catholic Education Notes 586 The Southw a rk Sem inary 586 Correspondence :
Rome (O u r Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ................................5 89 Obituary ................................5 91 Et Czetera ................................5 92
Letters to the Editor :
Income T a x : A Note for
Page the Clergy ................... 593 Churchless Novels . . . 593 The Dominica H u r r ic a n e 593 O rd in a tio n a t Valladolid . . . 593 P r in cess M ary a t C risp in
S tree t ................................5 94 The Catholic Conference of
H igher S tudies ....................594 Ch e s s ............................................ 595 Orb i s Terrarum :
England, Scotland and Wales ................................59 6
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Orbis Terrarum (Oontd.) :
I re la nd
A u stra lia
China
F rance
In d ia
L i th u an ia
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The Philippines ................ 600 Po r tu g a l ................ 600 U.S.A. ................ 600 Zanzibar ................ 600 Coming Events ................6 00 Social and P ersonal . . . 600
NOTANDA A rich asset. The actual and potential value of the Prince of Wales to our nation and Empire (p. 573).
Mr. Snowden’s third Budget. A Tablet leaderwriter defends the Chancellor of the Exchequer against a charge of dishonest raiding (p. 577).
Undemocratic acts in Spain. How the Provisional Government is working to enfeeble the Monarchist vote at the General Election. A question for the Manchester Guardian (p. 575).
Anglo-Orthodoxy. Instructive statements by an Orthodox Patriarch, by a Serbian theologian, and by a body of Anglican Low Churchmen (pp. 574, 575, 578)'.
Films, bad and good. A year’s work of the Censors (p. 574).
The Home in mean streets. A Catholic Probation Officer tells the story of Mary and Bill (p. 579).
Strange arrangements in Zanzibar. “ Comprehensiveness ” again (p. 600).
NEWS AND NOTES A FTER travelling eighteen thousand miles by sea, land and air, the Royal Princes are again among us. Their work for Britain and the whole Empire has been done right gallantly. Why should it not go on ?
The youthful appearance and simple manners of the Prince of Wales have made many Englishmen forget th a t His Royal Highness is now much nearer. forty than thirty and that he has travelled more widely and attentively than all save a very few of his contemporaries. We must not allow a minority of punctilious Constitutionalists to deprive our country of so rich an asset, amidst the present poverty of national statesmanship. A Limited Monarchy does not mean that the Monarch and his family must be limited to merely ceremonious acts, such as laying foundation-stones and signing charitable appeals. I t is our firm belief that, if the Prince of Wales were allowed to take Unemployment out of the political arena and to surround himself with a small council drawn from all parties and classes, a good result would accrue. Unemployment could not be abolished : but much of the evil to which it has given rise could be remedied by patriotic co-operation under a leader who is trusted by all alike. We are well aware that this Note of ours will be considered indiscreet by sticklers for old-fashioned reticence where the Royal House is concerned. Our defence is that the nation’s need is so desperate that something will have to be done at once. His Majesty the King, whose own strength must be husbanded, would, we feel sure, fall in with the plan we suggest so soon as he became persuaded th a t there is a national wish behind it.
“ Christianity is not only one of the ‘ great faiths ’ of India, but one of the oldest . . . Christianity is older in India than Islam, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, and the modern developments of Hinduism.” So wnote Sir Michael O’Dwyer in last Wednesday’s Times, in reply to Mr. Gandhi’s threat against Christian Missions. Sir Michael’s whole letter is worth reading and keeping. He shows how Christianity, Islam and Sikhism work at “ the noble task of rescuing the Submerged Fifth of outcastes from the degradation to which they have been condemned by that orthodox Hinduism which Mr. Gandhi now champions.”
About fifteen years ago, when i , 000,000 acres of Government waste land in the Punjab were being irrigated and reclaimed, Sir Michael set aside 50,000 acres for the Indian outcastes and offered parcels of land on very easy terms to any religious body which would undertake to form and manage outcaste settlements. Our Franciscan Fathers and the Salvation Army came forward and turned arid wastes into smiling farms. Later on, the Moslems
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