T h e Tablet, December 5, 1931.

W ITH LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: SIXTY-FOUR PAGES.

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

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News and No t e s ...................717 “ Se Nascens Dedit Socium” 721 The Lesson of Ephesus . . . 721 From The Tablet of Ninety

Years Ago .

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A dvent P astorals : Westminster ................. 724 Next Week ............................ 726 Westminster Catholic Fede­

ration ............................ 726 Sermons for the Times ... 728

CONTENTS

Catholic Education Notes . Page .. 728 Coming Events .. 730 Catholic Social Service . .. 730 Ch e s s .................................... .. 731 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 733 St. Andrew’s Hospital, Dollis Hill ............................ 734 C.C.I.R.................................... 734

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Et C/ETe r a ...................... 735 Letters to the Ed i t o r :

The New Franciscan

Friary at Oxford ... 736 “ A.M.D.G.” ............... 736 Orb i s Terrarum :

England, Scotland and Wales .............. . . . 788 Ireland .............. . . . 788 Belgium .............. . . . 739 Czechoslovakia ... 739

Or b is T krrarum ( Contd.) :

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Danzig Fränce Italy Japan Poland Spain Switzerland U.S.A.

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Obituary

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Social and P ersonal .. 744

NOTANDA The Council o f Ephesus. A timely article by the Abbot o f Buckfast (p. 721).

The Immaculate Conception. A sermon fo r the com ing week’s great festival (p. 728).

Much about Public Morality. Cardinal Bourne’s wise words (p. 726).

Ecclesiastical education in the Archdiocese o f Westminster. The Cardinal Archbishop’s Advent Pastoral (p . 724).

Set-backs to schism-makers in M exico and in Czechoslovakia (pp. 718-19).

The Muscovites and “ freedom o f conscience.” They shoot another Bishop (p. 717).

“ Multiple Reviewing.” H ow a small stage-army o f critics marches round and round the back-cloth (p. 750).

A Double Number o f The Tablet. S ix ty -fou r pages o f print, with forty columns o f book-reviews.

NEWS AND NOTES

TN CIRCUMSTANCES resembling the home country’s, New Zealand has held a General Election. While no great changes in the numerical strengths o f Parties have taken place, the result of the poll is to consolidate the Coalition Government and to fortify it with a clear mandate in favour of conservative finance. New Zealand’s pluck and sanity will pull her through.

A useful debate on the political future o f India is engaging the House o f Commons while we write this Note. For the moment we can say little more than that the Government has been fully justified in its disregard o f those hotheads who raised the cry, “ Send Gandhi H om e .” The Round Table Conference has been u s e fu l ; and it has confirmed our

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belief that India’s varied populations can boast many native spokesmen o f strong political ability. The Federation basis for reform, despite attempts to undermine it, remains firm. There is a long way to go before a settlement is reached ; but not such a long, long way as has been travelled since the dismal epoch o f “ Indian nights ” in an almost empty House o f Commons.

A t Communist and even at Labour meetings, audiences are often told that the death-penalty is no longer inflicted in Russia and that there is freedom o f conscience in that country. Here is a hard red fact against which such fictions break like thin glass. Mgr. Maxim was Orthodox Bishop o f Serpukhov (not far from Moscow), one o f the oldest towns in Russia and a famous place for making chintz. When the Metropolitan Sergei decided to support the de facto Moscow Government, Mgr. Maxim felt that he could not approve o f such an act, inasmuch as it compromised his loyalty to our Divine Lord. On July 6, Mgr. Maxim was taken out and shot. So well did the anti-God police hush up this judicial murder that it was not verified until last Monday by the extremely careful Papal Commission pro Russia. A priest was condemned to death at the same time, but his sentence has been reduced to ten years’ imprisonment, with hard labour. «

“ There is no Unemployment in Russia ! ” This rhetorical statement is having so much success at Hendersonian meetings that we are asked by a Muscovite mocker at The Tablet and by a perturbed friend to offer an explanation. It is an easy job . Speaking last week at a meeting o f Finchley (North Ward) Hendersonians, a Mr. Rothstein “ who has been in Russia 18 months, studying the question,” boasted that there are no Unemployment Exchanges in the U .S .S .R ., because “ the trouble is to find enough workers for the work.” But Mr. Rothstein gave the essential secret away when he cried :

The motto of the Soviet Union is : " I f a man will not work, he shall not eat."