THE TABLET
s l W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEFTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
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L o n d o n , O c t o b e r i o , 1 9 3 1 .
S i x p e n c e .
R eg is tered at the General P ost Off ic e as a Newspaper
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News and No t e s .................461 The Father of the Poor . . . 465 The Last Supper, Calvary and the Mass ................. 466 An AugEean S ta b le ................. 467 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 469 R eview s :
Father D ’Arcy’s New
Book ............................ 469 Happy Days ................. 469 Over the Hills and Far
Away ............................ 470 Yon HiigeFs Reliques . . . 470 I f “ To-morrow” Comes 471
CONTENTS
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Books Received ................. 471 New Books and Music . . . 472 Barvin P a r k ............................ 472 Hospital of St. John and
St. Elizabeth ................. 473 Ordination at Ushaw Col
lege ...................................... 473 Encyclical Letter ................. 474 Obituary ............................ 475 Ch e s s .......................................475 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................477
The New Franciscan Friary
Page at O x f o r d ............................ 478 Et C.e t e r a ............................ 479 Catholic Education Notes . . . 480 Southwark Diocesan Pro
gress .......................................481 Orbis Terrarum :
England, Scotland and Wales ............................481 Ireland ............................482 Canada ............................ 482 China ............................482 Czechoslovakia . .. ... 483
Or b i s T errarum
France
Haiti
Holland
Palestine
Russia
Spain
Uganda
U.S.A.
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Coming Events .............. 486 The Prospective Teachers’
Examination .............. 486 School Sports .............. 486 Social and Personal . . . 486
NOTANDA The Sovereign Pontiff’s appeal on behalf o f the poor, especially the poor’s children. The Apostolic Letter Nova impendet, on the Economic Crisis, Unemployment and Disarmament (pp. 465, 474).
A crucial October. Some Notes on the imminent General Election and on the duties o f Catholics concerning it (pp. 461-2).
The Supper, the Cross and the Mass. A Franciscan disputant widens the basis o f a recent discussion (p. 466).
“ Limbrick-Kensit-Ouseley.” A further appeal to self-respecting members o f the Established Church, including the Solicitor-General in the National Government (p. 467).
Opening o f the new Franciscan friary at Oxford. A day o f rejoicing fo r the Greyfriars and their guests (p. 478).
St. Raphael’s, Barvin Park. His Eminence Cardinal Bourne formally inaugurates, by an opening ceremony, another Catholic social work in Hertfordshire (p. 472).
N E W S A N D N O T E S
T T OWEVER ardent his civic devotion and his
*■ national patriotism may be, the true Catholic knows that he is a citizen o f the world and a member o f the universal human family. Therefore our laudable preoccupation with our own country’s troubles must never become a pair of blinkers, hiding the griefs o f other nations from our sight. Many a brave people is just now enduring far sterner hardships than ours. In a short and beautiful Apostolic Letter, which is translated on another page o f this week’s Tablet, our Holy Father manifests his fatherliness towards the victims o f the present distresses and especially towards the children. Although it is addressed to the Bishops, the Letter is for us all.
New Series. Vol. CXXVI. No. 4,169.
To-day His Majesty’s loyal subjects can draw long breaths in an air which is no longer surcharged with unnecessary suspense. Procrastination concerning the inevitable General Election had lasted so long that the best men and women in our country were losing hope. It seemed that “ Politics First ” was indeed the mainspring of public life in Britain and that we were to have a National Government only in name. Day after day passed in nothing more solid than attempts to arrange a modus vivendi between old parliamentary groups rather than in finding quickly a sound modus co-operandi between statesmen o f all the sane and patriotic groups. But we know at last where we are. Mr. MacDonald and his colleagues have recognized the obvious fact that a political Parliament elected in the nineteen-twenties does not suffice for the suprapartisan and national tasks of the nineteen-thirties.
The MacDonald Ministry, consisting of Conservative, Labour and Liberal statesmen, was sustained in the House of Commons by a majority too small for its work. One of Britain’s most urgent needs for many a month to come will be the showing o f a solid front to the outside world. Those publicists who have been strongly and even violently opposing a General Election before 1932 or 1933 have not sufficiently pondered the bad effect which would have been produced abroad by narrow majorities in the division lobbies o f the Commons. The Hendersonians, reinforced by anti-Ministerial Liberals, would have been able to educe a succession of crises and to shake the belief of other countries in Britain’s powers of recuperation.
Mr. Winston Churchill, last week, suggested that Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Baldwin ought to jump into a motor-car and run down to Churt, where Mr. Lloyd George has a conning-tower and a signalling station during his convalescence. On Monday, Mr. MacDonald went to Churt alone. He acted rightly in not taking Mr. Baldwin with him. The presence of the Conservative leader could have
