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THE TABLET A W eek ly N ew s p a p e r a n d R e v ie w

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

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

V o l . 159. No. 4,797.

L o n d o n , A pr il 16, 1932.

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News and No t e s ................. 493 The Siege of Weimar . . . 497 A Bid for Bilocation . . . 497 Pontifical Court Club . . . 498 A Presidential Candidate . . . 498 Catenian Faith and Duty 500 R e v i e w s :

Baltic, Black Sea and

Caspian ............................ 500 The Men of the Canoes 502 The Mighty Atom . . . 503 Books Received ................. 504

C O N T E N T S

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New Books and Music . . . 504 Catholic Education Notes . . . 505 The Conference of Higher

Studies ............................ 505 The Catholic Truth Society 506 St. Dunstan ........................507 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................509 The Church of the Loaves and F is h e s ............................ 511

From The Tablet of Ninety

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Years A g o ............................ 512 Coming E ve n t s .................. 512 Obituary ............................ 512 W i l l s .......................................513 E t C.e t e r a ...............................5 14 Orbis Terrarum:

England, Scotland and Wales ............................ 515 Ireland ............................ 515 A r g e n t i n a ............................ 517 Belgium ............................ 517 Bolivia ............................ 517

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Brazil

Or b is T erearum ( Oontd.) :

Colombia

France

Holland

India

Persia

Poland

Portugal

Roumania

Spain

Switzerland

Venezuela

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So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 520 Ch e s s . . . . . . 520

NOTANDA The Presidency o f the German Reich. Herr Hitler’s progress in sapping and mining the Weimar Constitution (p. 497).

France prepares fo r a General Election. The Blum-Herriot pact as a danger to the Church (p. 495).

Mr. de Valera’s aims. A Tablet leader-writer on “ A Bid fo r Bilocation ” (p. 497).

The church above the stone. Dom Lambert Nolle, O.S.B., tells the story o f the discovery at Tabgha, the scene o f the miracle o f the loaves and fishes (p. 511).

Much about Spain. The Republic’s first anniversary (p. 495). A banquet in Madrid and a greeting to The Tablet (p. 519).

The Red Hand o f Russia. H ow German Communism supports M oscow ’ s “ Militant Godless ” (p. 498).

New Zealand’s uphill fight. A way o f helping her— and o f helping the Home Country (p. 495).

NEWS AND NOTES A T Geneva, the delegates to the Disarmament Conference are discussing Washington’s latest proposal. As presented by Mr. Hugh Gibson, the project is based on the new and useful distinction between qualitative and quantitative armaments. In modern preparations fo r war, the weapons of deadliest quality are submarines, bomb-dropping aircraft, poison-gas, “ tanks,” and the huge yet mobile siege-guns. The U.S.A. proposal recommends the abolition of the last three in the foregoing list— -heavy guns, tanks, and gas. M. Tardieu, speaking on behalf of France, has expressed a natural wish that Washington, instead o f suggesting qualitative reductions in land armaments only, shall bring forward her naval and air-craft proposals as part and parcel o f one coherent scheme.

N ew S e r ie s . Vol. CXXVII. No. 4,196.

Taking leave to speak frankly on a delicate point, we remind the British public that the moment is unfavourable fo r fruitful discussions between France and the U.S.A. Just now, those tw o great Republics are distrustful o f one another. On the other side of the Atlantic, many citizens believe that selfish financiers in Paris are furtively trying to batter the exchange and to provoke a Flight from the Dollar. French publicists, while indignantly repelling this charge, have begun to say that Mr. Gibson is in Geneva as the bearer o f hypocritical proposals for armament-reduction. They remind us that the land-frontier dividing the States from Canada— one o f the longest in the world — is left by both nations without fortresses and garrisons, while Mexico, to the South, prefers civil wars at home to a suicidal attack on the U.S.A. Therefore, say the Frenchmen, the United States could give up tanks and Big Berthas to-m orrow without diminishing her security. In short, they affirm that Washington's offer to Geneva is a hollow one. North America, they add, can be attacked from the oceans or from the air ; and therefore it is in naval and aerial armaments that Americans must prove their sincerity by taking risks. It is rumoured that Mr. Gibson has more documents in his wallet and that one o f them would meet the French objection. If this be true, we would respectfully suggest that the whole American scheme shall be produced globally, without the finesse o f piecemeal disclosure. A t the Disarmament Conference there are certain persons who would like the sittings to last as long as the Council o f Trent, and these leisurely delegates favour the piecemeal method. But the world’s need o f Armament Reduction is too urgent for dignified delays.

Now that women are both in Parliament and at the Bar, there is nothing to stop the appointment o f a woman, provided she be not a Catholic, to the Lord Chancellorship o f England. But no Catholic, either Catholic man or Catholic woman, can attain to that high dignity. Such was the