THE TABLET y i Weekly Newspaper and R eview
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 160. No. 4,810.
L o n d o n , J u l y 16, 1932.
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New s and No t e s ................ 69 Noblesse Oblige .............. 73 The Spirit of Rievaulx . . . 74 “ The Cannibal Islands ” 76 R e v ie w s :
For Superiors ............. 77 The Bond of Piety . . . 77 The Shepherdess of Pibrac 77 Overpraised .............. 78 “ Thomas of London ” 78 Books Received ............. 79 New Books and Music . . . 79 The Governor-General of the
Irish Free State and the President of the Executive Council .......................... 80
CONTENTS
From The Tablet of Ninety
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Years A g o ......................... 82 The Crusade of Rescue . . . 82 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) .......................... 85 W i l l s ............................ 86 Ob it u ary ............................ 86 E t Cæ t e r a ........................... Catholic Education Notes The Christian Home The Campion Play at
Oster ley .........................
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
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Belgium ..............
Look to Your Votes . .. 90 Czechoslovakia
The Spanish Monument of
Denmark ..............
the Sacred Heart
90 France ..............
The Right Churches 90 Germany ..............
Ecclesiastical Dress 90 Greece ..............
An Enquiry .............. 90 Hungary ..............
Monsignor Myers: An Ed
Malta ..............
mundian Presentation . . . 90 North Africa
Coming E ve n t s ................ 90 Poland ..............
CnEss .................................... 91 Russia ..............
Or b is Terrarum :
England, Scotland and
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Yugoslavia
Wales ......................... 91 An Offer of Shares
Ireland ........................ 92 So c ia l and P ersonal
Austria ......................... 92 The Late King Manoel 96
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NOTANDA The dawn o f a new clay. The H o ly Father’s words on answered prayers (p. 69).
K ing ManoeFs Requiem. The Portuguese Government’ s chivalrous initiative (pp. 72, 96).
Lausanne. Some words o f caution. The approaching General Election in Germany (p. 69).
The Purgation o f the Press. A Tablet leaderwriter appeals to the Newspaper Peers (p. 73).
H ow the eighth centenary o f Rievaulx Abbey was celebrated by St. Aelred’s kinsmen in faith. An account o f last Sunday’s ceremonies, and an article on Rievaulx in the past (p. 74).
A contrast. A Jewish paper’s handsome words on the Phoenix Park Mass and a High Anglican organ’s jealous silence (p. 71).
A defender o f the voluntary schools who successfully challenged his party on the score o f his faith. The late Mr. John Scurr’s services to Catholic education (p. 88).
Catholic missionary progress in the “ Cannibal Islands.” Some facts and figures from the Vicariate o f Rabaul (p. 76).
Worcestershire organizes its first Eucharistic Congress. The programme (p. 87).
NEWS AND NOTES H O vV in my times have these “ News and Notes ” began with appeals for prayer as a remedy for our own nation’s or the whole world’s troubles ? The answer is that, whatever the arithmetical total, we have not begged prayers once too often. And it is good to know that the appeals in this and other Catholic papers have not been in vain. Last Sunday morning, our Holy Father spoke some moving words on this point. Not necessarily in the letter, but in the spirit of the Lausanne Accords, His Holiness discerns the promise o f better days. “ The dawn,” he said,
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seems to be enlightening the sombre horizon with its beams.” While the Pontiff did not go so far as to pronounce a post hoc, ergo propter hoc, he said that he could not disregard the coincidence of so many prayers with this dawning of a new day. Those who heard the Pontiff’s discourse in the Hall of the Consistory were deeply impressed by the unusually solemn tone in which His Holiness gave thanks for the prayers and penances, on a world-wide scale, which have been offered up expressly for his fatherly intention ; that is to say, for the relief and enlargement o f all afflicted and straitened peoples.
Before discussing Lausanne, we discharge a debt of honour to M. Herriot. The Tablet has often written strongly against the actual President of the Council and may have to do so again ; but it would be unjust to refrain from saying that M. Herriot’s recent words and deeds have redounded to his credit as a patriot and a statesman. Let him go on as he has begun and he will find even old enemies eager to help him.
To have come back from Lausanne confessing that the Conference in that clean and pleasant town had been abortive would have been more than Mr. MacDonald’s or any other Lausanne delegate’s political life was worth. Europe had decided that Lausanne must not be sterile. What the statesmen brought back in their hands mattered less than that they should not come back emptyhanded. If any reader suspects us of cynicism herein, let him question his friends and acquaintances on the results of Lausanne and he will find either hazy notions or perilous misconceptions. Not only do the Lausanne agreements require ratifications which may not be accorded, but they are conditioned by “ gentlemen’s agreements ” and unwritten understandings between the Creditor Powers. A still more serious defect is that they largely depend upon precariously hoped-for action by the U.S.A., which the Democrats o f that
