THE TABLET

s i W eek ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v ie w DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTR IS CONSTANTER MANE AT IS

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

V o l . 15 8 . N o . 4 7 7 5 . L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 1 4 , 1 9 3 1 .

Six p e n c e .

R e o i s t e b e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N e w s p a p e r

CONTENTS

News and Notes ... Page . . . 621 The Opposition . . . 623 A Lie or a Spy? . . . 626 Catholic Institute of

Higher Studies . . . 628 R e v ie w s :

Southwell’s “ Exercitia ” 629 Theories of Population 630 By Mother Clare Fey . . . 630 Another Marie-Antoinette 630 From Continental Parcels 631 The Philosophy of Mathe­

matics ......................... 632

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Books Received ................. 632 New Books and Music . . . 632 I The Last Supper, The Cross and the Mass ................. 633 i The Foreign Missions . . . 633 i Catholic Education Notes . . . 634

Cor respondence :

Rome (Our own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 637 E t Cj e t e r a ........................... 639

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L etters to the E d it or :

The Last Supper, Cal­

vary and the Mass . . . 640 For the Feast of St.

J o s a p h a t ............................ 640 The New Franciscan

Friary at Oxford . . . 640 From Dr. Cadoux . . . 641 Obitu ary .............................. 642 From The Tablet of Ninety

Years Ago 643 Coming E vents ...................643

Or b is Terrarum :

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England, Scotland and W ales .............. . . . 643 Ireland .............. . . . 644 Argentina .............. . . . 644 Belgium .............. . . . 646 France .............. . . . 646 Poland .............. . . . 646 Spain .............. . . . 648 Switzerland . . . 648 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 648 Chess ........................... . . . 648

NOTANDA

Britain’s new Parliament in session. The future o f Oppositions (p. 625).

Notes on some new Ministers. A welcome to Sir Tohn Simon, and a hint to Sir Thomas Inskip (p .6 2 2 ) .

The Manchester Guardian rebuked by a Catholic parochial magazine. A once great newspaper's Decline and Fall (p. 622).

Spain. The H o ly Father’s message to the •General o f the Society o f Jesus (p. 637).

“ Ex-M onk ” Ouseley decisively exposed. A deadly photograph. “ Footprints in the Snow ” (pp. 626-8).

Strange doings. H ow a High Anglican has tried to link the Bishop o f Rome and the Protestant Bishop o f Norwich (p. 624).

The Foreign Missionary Apostolate. Last Sunday’s demonstrations at Birmingham (p. 633). A new Director o f the A .P .F . in Great Britain; and a tribute to his predecessor in the work (p. 639).

Blessed Robert Southwell’s book in Latin. A tardy publication (p. 629).

NEWS AND NOTES S PEECHES by the Prime Minister and other statesmen at the Guildhall Banquet last Monday were followed on Tuesday by the K ing’s Speech from the Throne at the opening of Parliament. Not for the first time, a piece o f unamiahle English was put into the mouth o f His Majesty. On these occasions, the nation would like to hear the King’s English in its dignified and strong simplicity ; but political usage has once more prevailed in favour o f a vocabulary full of Latinisms and a syntax without nerves.

Disarmament was warmly commended, both in the King’s Speech and at the Guildhall. We have looked in vain, however, for those few words concerning Russia without which no public allusion to Disarmament can be accepted as complete or even sane. Only last Tuesday, a pro-Muscovite Canadian boasted openly that, in the event o f war with Russia, British Communists in Canada would be obliged to take the Russian side, “ even if the Soviets were wrong.” The Red standing army is much bigger than is generally supposed, and the partly-trained reserves available for quick mobilization are enormous. Therefore it will be madness to exclude the Russian factor from the Disarmament Conference. True friends of Peace must discourage our statesmen from minimizing the Red menace.

An ingenious follower of our Notes on Russia writes to suggest that, pending a rupture or a sound and firm arrangement between Britain and Moscow, our Government ought to deal with Russia on a basis of tit-for-tat. He says :

A British subject entering Russia must declare exactly the sum of money in his possession. During his sojourn among Mr. Henderson’s friends, he must spend not less than eight and a half roubles a day. .4s the exchange-rates in the newspapers are all bunkumfor the practical purposes of an individual traveller, eight and a half roubles were one pound sterling a few weeks ago, and are about twenty-five shillings to-day. When you come out of Russia you must prove (by hotel-bills, etc.) that you have spent your roubles. For instance, i f you have been in the country three months you must have spent about £100 worth of roubles. I f you have been careful and have spent only £70, they take away £30 from you at the frontier station of exit. It is a sort o f money-fine for living away from your own country. Why not do the same to the thousands of Russians in England ? This correspondent goes on to mention other points in which Britain might take precise reprisals on Russia. But we don’t like his idea. The right course is to brush pettifogging measures aside and to stand up manfully to the big issues. Diplomatic relations with Moscow were renewed on the strength of solemn promises which have been insolently7 broken. That is enough.

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