THE TABLET y i W e ek ly 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 INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTANTER MAN EAT IS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 159. No. 4,785.
London, January 23, 1932.
Sixpence.
R eg is tered at t e e General P ost Off ic e as a New s pape r
Fa ge
New s and No t e s ......... 97 A Case for Amends . . . 101 The “ Bezbojnik ” in
London . . . . . . . . . 102 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years Ago
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R e v ie w s :
The Divine Majesty . . . 104 A Sea Captain’s Journals 104 Dr. Healy of Tuam . . . 103 “ Genius ” 105 By Father James,
O.S.F.C..........................103
CONTENTS
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New Books and Music . .. 106 Oldmeadow v. Thorp1 and
Another ............................ 107 Books Received ................. 107 Encyclical Letter ................. 108 E p is c o p a l E ngagements 110 The Railwaymen’s Patron 110 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 113
Paare
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Coming E vents ................ 115 Or b is T errarum ( Oontd.) : ET C iE TERA ............................ 116 Ireland ................ 120 Catholic Education Notes ... Austria ................120 117 Belgium ................1 20 Lessons from Cana 118 France ................ 120
Ob it u ary ............................ 118 Mexico
India
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Pern
The Birmingham Catholic
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R eunion ............................ 119 Spain
Yugoslavia ................ 124
ORBi s T errarum :
So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 124
England, Scotland and
Wales ......................... 119 Chess . . .
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N O T A N D A
The Encyclical Lit.x veritatis. The first instalment o f a translation made f o r The Tablet (p. 108).
Septuagésima. The fitness o f its early incidence in stern times (p. 97).
Bolshevist progress in Great Britain. A grave article by G. M . Godden, and some N otes f o r pondering (pp. 98, 102).
A H ib b e r t Journal writer’ s misrepresentation o f Cardinal Bourne. W h a t H is Eminence did not say (p . 101).
“ T h e T w ig T h e o r y .” A prelim inary N ote on a fo r th com in g Tablet article (p. 100).
A correspondent revives the p ro je c t o f “ Fewer and Better Churches ” and is briefly answered (p. 100).
'The Stations o f the Cross. A decree affecting the Indulgences (p . 113).
M ex ic o . The persecution o f the Church in V e ra Cruz (p. 122).
In the H ig h Court o f Justice. The libel action o f The Tablet’s E d ito r against a L ondon journalist and a well-know n firm o f publishers. The terms o f the apology (p. 107).
NEW S AND NOTES W IT H Christmas-tide on ly ju st ended, we are on the eve o f Septuagésima. This early ons.et o f Lent is appropriate t o the stern days in which we are living. W ith on ly tw o Sundays after Epiphany this year, and w ith b o th Septuagésima and Sexagésima in January, we are rem inded that pleasure-time is shortened and that self-denial calls us w ith unwonted loudness. To-m orrow the Church sings neither Gloria nor Alleluia. She enters the ante-cham bers o f Lent. Y e t , as we have often pointed out in past years, the Mass-Propers from Septuagésima to Lent are not dismal. They abound in collects and in passages from H o ly Scripture
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recounting A lm igh ty G od ’ s goodness to H is people in their tem poral necessities. T o -m o r row ’ s Proper, fo r instance, tells us o f a God who will be b o th our Refuge and our Deliverer : but it makes no prom ises t o a godless and prayerless nation. Preces populi, “ the prayers o f His people,” are presupposed. In our affliction, says the In troit, H e hears ou r v o ice ; but He listens tie templo sancto suo. T o an apostate nation He promises nothing ; and therefore we direct special attention t o our Notes on atheism which will be found over-leaf.
Great Britain ’s normal administration is carried on b y the leading statesmen o f the parliam entary p a r ty which happens to be predom inant at the moment. W e have no reason t o believe that this p arty system will not reappear as soon as the present abnorm al com bination o f Ministers has either fu lfilled or abandoned its task. Therefore the future o f the Labour Party is a matter o f national concern. Mr. Clifford Allen, a Labour statesman who has ju st been raised to the peerage, has b rought ou t a pamphlet entitled “ Labour’s Future a t S take,” in which he pleads fo r a healing o f the breach am ong his political friends which was opened b y the fo rm ation o f a National Government and was w idened b y the startling landslide o f the General E lection . Mr. Clifford Allen, as we must call him fo r the present, believes that there is “ no immediate future fo r the Labour Party ” unless “ the vendetta against Mr. MacDonald ceases and the Party is reunited.” Sir Stafford Cripps, who was Solicitor-G eneral in the last Labour Government, has answered Mr. Clifford A llen 's pamphlet b y an article in the D a ily Herald. Sir Stafford, arguing that the Prim e Minister “ retains in his own hands the valuable weapon o f dissolution,” b roadly hints that Mr. MacDonald is “ anxious to keep open a return passage to the Labour Party which m ay be used in con jun ction with a dissolution to bring him back to power as the leader o f the Socialists.” Knowing him as we do, we do not d oubt that the form er Solicitor-G eneral has used the w ord “ Socialists ” quite deliberately in this instance.
