THE TABLET A W e e k ly N ew s p a p e r a n d
D U M V O B I S G R A T U L A M U R A N I M O S E T I A M A D D I M U S U T I N I N C C E P T I S V E S T R I S C O N S T A N T E R M A N E A T I S
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
V o l . 158. No. 4,766. L o n d o n , S e p t e m b e r 12, 1931.
S i x p e n c e .
R i O I STERRI) AT TOTE GENERAL P O S T O p T IC E AS A NEWSPAPER
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New s and No t e s ...................3 25 With a Good Grace . . . 329 The Rev. W. A. Limbrick 330 R e v ie w s :
Josue-Judges ................. 331 Josephine’ s Successor . . . 332 “ The Little More and
How Much I t I s ” ! . . . 332 Books Received ................. 333 New Books and Music . . . 333 Sermons for the Times . . . 334 Liverpool h Givenchy . . . 334 Catholic Education Notes . . . 336
CONTENTS
L etters to the E d i t o r :
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The Next Government . . . 337 The Next Election . . . 337 Scotland’s Old Kirks . . . 338 The Holy Shroud . . . 338 The Mass Restored to Edenbridge ............................ 338 The Unity of the Family 338 The Catholic Association at
Lourdes ............................338 Coming E vents ...................338 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 341
From The Tablet of Ninety
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Years A g o ......................... 342 Et Ctetera . . . 343 Ob it u a r y ................ . . . 344 Religion on Shipboard . . . 344 Or b i s T errarum :
England, Scotland and Wales .............. . . . 345 Ireland . . . ... . . . 345 Albania .............. . . . 346 Chile .............. . . . 346 China .............. . . . 346 E th i o p a .................... . . . 347
Or b i s T errarum ( Contd.) :
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France Germany Holland Hong Kong Japan Liberia Poland Portugal Rhodesia Siam Spain
. . . 347 . . . 348 . . . 348 . . . 350 . . . 350 . . . 350 . . . 350 . . . 350 . . . 350 . . . 350 . . . 350
So c ia l and P ersonal . . 352 Chess .. 352
NOTANDA His Majesty’s example o f self-sacrifice. A Tablet leader-writer pleads fo r “ A Good G ra ce ” in the bearing o f new burdens (pp. 325 and 329).
Italy and the H o ly See. A further comment on a settlement which has been mis-described in certain quarters (p. 325).
Parliament re-assembles. Notes on last Tuesday’s Vote o f Confidence. Attempts— in unexpected quarters— to whitewash Mr. Arthur Henderson, the friend and protector o f anti-God Moscow (p. 326).
H ow the Director o f the Protestant Reformation Society defends ex-Monk Ouseley. A preliminary article on the Rev. W . A . Limbrick’s speech at Heathfield, where the ex-M onk failed to face the music (p. 330).
Ireland’s national monuments. The needs o f Clonmacnoise (p. 326).
The Archbishop o f Liverpool at Givenchy. The French text o f His Grace’s oration last Sunday (p. 334).
The Spanish Republic and the Church. Answers to some anti-Catholic remarks, both Spanish and English (p. 327).
NEWS AND NOTES O UR King has clearly sounded the key-note of sacrifice, and it is for all loyal subjects to tune-in with His Majesty. In King George’s case, the voluntary acceptance o f a more than ten per cent, cut in his annual income is doubly magnanimous, because His Majesty is one o f the few persons in these islands who did not receive any kind of war bonus to meet the greatly increased cost o f living. King George’s Civil List (£470,000) is the same as King Edward’s, although expenses have risen all round. Only b y realising some o f the Duchy o f Lancaster’s capital did the King make both ends meet ten years ago. His reduced Civil List (£420,000) will not maintain the Royal Palaces
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and the Royal Households on a scale commensurate with the dignity o f this ancient realm unless inroads are made upon Their Majesties’ Privy Purse ; and so there will be real sacrifices. We are well aware that some persons are crying out against all pomp and circumstance : but they are not Catholics. We Papists know that even the Pope, who is a spiritual ruler, combines the utmost personal frugality with much public ceremonial. The Pope would be still the Pope in a hovel, and the King could still be the King in an eight-roomed suburban house. But the State, if we may vary a renowned old saying, “ is W e .” The Crown sums up the nation. It is not a mere bauble, but the symbol o f law and order. At the sacring o f King Edward, a minor poet sang :
For whoso doth consent, To Order’s sacrament,
Himself receives a crown. Therefore we repeat that His Majesty’s act puts an obligation on us all to do likewise.
Dipping their buckets into ultra-Fascist wells, a few English publicists are asserting that the “ accords ” between Italy and the Holy See signify a victory for Fascismo. The Tablet, with better Roman information than its secular contemporaries command, repeats that there is neither victor nor vanquished in this affair. Long before Signor Mussolini broke into Europe’s ken, the Partito Popolare’s leaders were publicly told— in 1919, to be precise— by Pope Benedict X V that they could not “ hold any directive office in Catholic Action ” ; and therefore the new accords, in reiterating this old prohibition, inflict no humiliation on the Papacy. The outstanding result o f the settlement is that Catholic Action in Italy, which has always been on a diocesan basis, promises to be more useful than ever, led by the Bishops of Italy with Pope Pius X I , Primate of Italy, at their head. The Italian Government made a tacit admission o f wrong-doing by beginning to hand back the Catholic clubs to their rightful owners before the new accords were signed. As for Catholic Youth, the extreme Totalitarian demand o f Fascismo is abandoned and Catholic
