THE TABLET

A 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 ADD I MU S UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S T R IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.

Vol. 1 5 8 . No. 4 ,7 7 1 .

London, O c t o b e r 1 7 , 1 9 3 1 .

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New s and No t e s .................. 493 “ The Best We’ve G o t ” 497 “ Patient of Contradictory

Interpretations” . . . 497 The Sovereign Pontiff . . . 498 “ Handsome is as Handsome

Does ”

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From The Tablet of Ninety

Years A g o ............................ 500 R e v i e w s :

An American Protestant on Newman ................. 501

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R e v i e w s ( Oontd.) : Mysticism, Muslim and

Christian

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Murder by G h o s t ................. 502 A Great Seam an .................502 Books Received ................. 502 New Books and Music . . . 503 Nicholas Breakspear . . . 504 St. Mary’s School, Derby . . . 504 The Ilsley Memorial Chapel 505 Coming E vents ...................5 05 ET CiETERA...............................506 L etters to th e E d i t o r :

The New Franciscan

Friary at Oxford . . . 507

ENTS

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Ch e s s .......................................... 507 Correspondence :

Romo (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 509 Catholic Education Notes . . . 510 An Extension at Cotton . . . 510 Obitu ary ............................ 512 “ Month’s Mind ” for Bishop

Dunn ............................ 512 Sermons for the Times . . . 512 Or b is Terrarum :

England, Scotland and Wales ............................ 513

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Ob b ib T ebbabum (O ontd.) :

Ireland ......................... 514 Belgium ......................... 514 Brazil ......................... 514 Czechoslovakia .............. 515 France ......................... 515 Germany ......................... 516 India ......................... 516 Spain ......................... 516 U.S.A.................................... 520 Yugoslavia .............. 520 School Sports .............. 520 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 520

NOTANDA Electing a new House o f Commons. The need fo r a reversal o f Anglo-Russian policy (p. 497).

The Sovereign Pontiff’s health. The Tablet formally contradicts a baseless rumour (p. 498).

Eucharistic Belief in the Established Church. The R e c o rd ’ s acute analysis o f a recent document (p. 497).

Dr. Cadoux returns to the charge but still fails to document his charges (p. 498).

Church and State in Spain. The heroic sacrifices o f two Republican leaders. T o -m orrow ’s perils (p. 496). A debate in the Cortes (p. 518).

The English Pope. A n unveiling ceremony in Nicholas Breakspear’s native district; and an address by His Eminence Cardinal Bourne (p. 504).

R io de Janeiro’s mountain monument to Christ our Redeemer (pp. 495, 514).

Cotton College. The stone-laying o f the new wing (p. 510). A picture and plan o f the extension (p. 511).

A Bulgarian in Paris. H ow the crowds at St. Sulpice impressed an Orthodox visitor (p. 495).

NEWS AND NOTES ¿ 'A N CE again Dr. Schacht (formerly President ' - ' o f the Reichsbank) has given his country a stab in the back. This time, he is trying to help Herr Hitler by smashing the mark. His tale (a demonstrably false one) is that the Reichsbank is practically bankrupt ; and it is in the noxious atmosphere thus created that Dr. Brüning has introduced his new Cabinet to the Reichstag. From correspondents in Germany we learn that the gravity o f the political situation can hardly be overstated. One o f them says :

To reassure the public, Dr Brüning (now both Chancellor and Foreign Minister) insists that Germany is plentifully stocked with food supplies for the coming winter. Unfor

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iunately, his adversaries have seized upon these words. They say that nothing will suit their plans better than a self-contained, self-sufficient Germany, able to exist fo r a time independently o f foreign producers and Parisian financiers. “ Germany can do without France more easily than France can do without Germany.” B y the time this Note is under the eyes o f our readers, it ought to be known whether the new Cabinet has received a vote o f confidence from the Reichstag. We pen these lines on Thursday, before the taking o f the vote.

In the address which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald sent out broadcast to the British people from Covent Garden Opera House, where he had been listening to Parsifal, mention was made of last month's little bit of trouble in the Navy. The Prime Minister was criticized by some o f his hearers, who said that it was unpatriotic to enlarge upon a comparatively small spasm of indiscipline. But Mr. MacDonald knew what he was talking about. The affair in the Fleet was feverishly seized upon by Britain’s enemies, with the result that a new shock was given to foreign confidence in our credit. Perhaps the news could have been placed in its proper perspective, at the time, if it had not been for the mischief - making of our indefatigable Russian enemies. In every country where there is unrest, as well as in every financial centre, Russian agents used their influence to magnify the brief indiscipline of a few sailors into a big mutiny. The keynote was sounded for them from headquarters. In Russia, there is an influential newspaper called Trud, which is the organ o f the Soviet Trade Unions. In its issue of September 18, Trud published a com mentary. The writer declared that “ the British fleet is now permeated with revolutionary ideas.” Continuing, he said :

Unemployment has brought about great changes tn the personnel o f the Royal Navy. Young recruits from the coal-mining areas have swelled the lower ratings, together with many dockers. In this way the revolutionary traditions o f the proletariat have been brought into the Fleet. . . . The Fleet has held out its hand to the proletariat in a common fight against the Government. The exception­