THE TABLET

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News and No t e s ................. 357 Revilers R am p a n t ................. 361 A Sea Pilgrimage in St.

Columba’s Wake— V . . . 362 Coming Events ................. 364 Reviews :

“ Christus ” in English . . . 364 An Anglican on Spiritu­

ality ............................364 Toilers of the Sea . . . 365 The Talmud of the Mystics 365 “ These Cliquant People ” 366 Books Received ................. 367 New Books and Music . . . 368

CONTENTS

The Franciscan Tertiary

Congress ............................ 368 The Franciscan Festival at

Assisi ............................ 371 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

Page spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 373 Catholic Education Notes . . . 375 E t C iE T E R A .................................. 3 7 6 Letters to the Editor :

The Dublin Eucharistic

C on g re s s ............................ 377 Spain ............................ 377

Presentation to the Bishop

Page of Nottingham .............. 377 Ordination at Heythrop . . . 377 The Mountains of the

“ Lucky O x ”

. . . 378

Obituary .............. . . . 378 W il ls .............. . . . 378 Orbis Terrarum:

England .............. . . . 379 Scotland .............. . . . 379 Wales .............. . . . 379 Ireland .............. . . . 380

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Orbis Terrarum ( Cordd.) Belgium ....................... 380 China ....................... 380 France ....................... 380 Germany ....................... 381 Holland ....................... 381

India ....................... 382 I t a l y ....................................... 382 South Africa ................. 382 Switzerland ................. 382 Y ugoslavia............................ 382 A Monday at Buckfast . . . 384 Social and P ersonal . . . 384 Ch e s s ....................................... 384

N O T A N D A

The Franciscan Tertiary Congress. An address by the Archbishop o f Liverpool points the way to a new crusade in face o f the menace o f Communism (p. 368).

Recent revilings o f the Catholic Church. A Tablet leader-writer locates a canker in the Church o f England, and calls fo r its excision (p. 361).

The Bishop o f Nottingham. His lordship honoured by priests and people o f the Diocese o f Salford (p. 377).

Germany still “ on the front page.” Some Notes on a rekindled crisis (p. 357).

Assisi. Preparations fo r days o f high festival in the city o f the Little Poor Man (p. 371).

“ Modern ” A rt in churches. The Osservatore Romano’s protest (pp. 358-9).

What M oscow ’ s agents in England tell our people about contemporary life in Russia (p. 360).

Intimidation by suicide. Some unsentimental Notes on Mr. Gandhi and the Untouchables (p. 358).

“ One Army only.” Mr. Earnon de Valera’ s new promise (p. 359).

von Hindenburg’s decree dissolving this quite new Reichstag, thereupon laid the document on the Speaker’s desk, and withdrew from the House. The vote of censure was carried by 513 votes against 32. Some curious questions of Reichstag procedure which arose do not materially affect the situation and can be passed over by English readers.

Writing on Tuesday night, our German Correspondent devotes most of his letter to explaining the position of Dr. Brüning, the Catholic exChancellor. To some extent, he says, a charge of inconsistency can be brought against the exChancellor, who himself over-rode the Reichstag and “ governed b y decrees ” to such an extent as to disqualify himself from posing as a champion o f parliamentary institutions. But our German friend believes that the Centre’s objections to the von Papen Ministry go deeper than the question of decrees. Dr. Brüning fears that his successor is once more placing the German people under the domination of an oligarchy which would revive militarism and Junkerism. He adds, however, that it was a bad blunder on the Reichstag’s part to refuse the Chancellor a hearing. His defence and his programme ought to have been both heard and debated.

NEW S AND NOTES Q E V E N days ago, publicists expected the French ^ Note on Germany’s demand for Equality of Armaments to be this week’s big political topic. But Monday brought news which drowned the echoes of M. Herriot’s admirable speech. The world learned that the Chancellor had presented himself before the Reichstag to deliver a carefully prepared explanation of the Government’s policy, and that the House had refused to hear him, on the technical ground that a vote was in progress, on a Communist motion to censure the Government. Herr von Papen, who had furnished himself beforehand with President

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Many British listeners-in who happened to tune their receivers last Monday night to a German wave-length, heard the discourse which the Chancellor had not been allowed to utter in the Reichstag. It appeared to be a hurriedly revised version of a speech which had been very carefully considered. I f the von Papen Government remains in power, the vast economic experiment proposed in President von Hindenburg’s recent decree will be tried out. I f that experiment fails, said the Chancellor, the whole system based on private ownership in Germany will collapse, and some kind o f Communism will take its place. To give the new scheme a chance, alternations of party government, pendulum-fashion, must cease for the present. In other words, the