THE TABLET A W eek 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 VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

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

V o l . 160. No. 4,824. L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 22, 1932.

S i x p e n c e .

Registered at th e General P ost Of f ic e as a New spa per .

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News and No t e s ................. 525 A “ Delta ” Policy for Unemployment .................529 Catholic Charities in English Law 530 Growing Cotton ................. 531 R e v iew s ;

Cardinal Merry Del Val 533 A Forerunner of Bunyan 534 Sermons, Clerical and Lay 534 New Books and Music . . . 536 Books Received ................. 536 The Catholic Evidence Guild 537

CONTENTS

Archbishop Goodier on St. Edward the Confessor . . . 537 Catholic Education Notes 538 William of Wykeham . . . 539 Correspondence :

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Rome (Our OwnCorrespondent's Weekly Letter from) ......................... 541 The Holy Father’s Day . . . 542 From The Tablet of Ninety Years Ago 542 Coming Events ............... 542

Wills

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Et Ca s t e r a ............................ 543 Letters to the Editor : Everyman’s Library . . . 544 Unforgivable Sin . . . 544 For the Long, Dark Evenings 544 1 1 1 544 The Union of Catholic Mothers ............................ 544 Chess 545 Orb i s Teerarum : England ............................ 546

Or b is Terrarum ( Oontd.)

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Ireland ............................ 546 Austria ............................ 547 Belgium ............................ 548 Canada ............................ 548 China .............................548 Czechoslovakia ................. 548 France ............................ 548 Poland ............................ 550 Spain ............................ 550 Obituary ............................ 552 Social and P ersonal . . . 552

NOTANDA Unemployment. The folly of uniform treatment for a multiform evil (p. 529).

Red Communism in England. The Home Secretary ’s admission. More about the dishonest “ Catholic Crusade ” of certain High Protestants (pp. 525-6). Spain. Particulars of the new Project of Law for the confiscation of all Catholic property (pp. 527, 550). Cotton College. Memorable speeches by the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster and the Archbishop of Birmingham (p. 531). “ About a Pamphlet Cover.” The Catholic Truth Society’s wise decision (p. 528). Cardinal Merry del Val’s humanity and humility. A “ Character-sketch ” reviewed (p. 533). How Catholic schools and colleges fared at the Oxford School Certificate Examination. A fine list of successes (p. 538). Intellectual ammunition, for working men, against “ Red ” teaching. An equipped source of supply (p. 543). Sunday, October 30. A reminder (p. 542).

NEWS AND NOTES W ITH this week’s Parliamentary and police- court reports in warm print before them, those few readers of ours who are “ bored stiff by The Tablet’s incessant talk about Moscow ” will perhaps sit up and take notice. Four and twenty policemen were injured last Tuesday night while repressing disorders in South London a t which “ Up the Reds ” was the cry of young men and women (especially young women) in the crowd. Sir John Gilmour, the new Home Secretary, has assured the House of Commons that Tuesday’s rioting was not a genuine outbreak of native discontent but was a

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demonstration worked up by the Communist organisation called the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement. Sir John did not hesitate to say : " I t is quite clear th a t there is a very material connection between those in Moscow and some members of this Movement.” In speaking thus, the Home Secretary was only telling the House of Commons what The Tablet, with its limited resources in money and in staff, found out and pub­ lished broadcast years ago. Unhappily we do not find th a t the Government intends to make Muscovite sedition a prohibited import. Moscow was allowed, only a week or two ago, to send a carefully chosen new Ambassador to London ; and hardly any restraint is placed upon her subversive propaganda.

I t is not primarily for the defence of the middle and upper classes that we demand from the Government a drastic repression of Soviet plots in Britain. The most numerous sufferers from a Muscovite success would be our poorer people. Therefore the Labour P arty is in honour bound to work with Authority against alien mischief-makers. Now th a t Mr. Henderson has resigned his leadership of the Labour Party, Mr. Lansbury, a Christian man, has a golden opportunity of raising his P arty in the nation’s esteem by repudiating the silly idea th a t British Labour is somehow bound to be the apologist of Anti-God Russia.

Would th a t we could share the optimism of the Daily Express concerning Anglo-Russian relations ! Discussing the action of the Government in giving Moscow six months’ notice to terminate the [tem­ porary] Commercial Agreement signed between Great Britain and the Soviet Government on April 16, 1930, the Express rejoices over “ the End of a Bad Business.” After patiently considering re­ ports made to us from Blackpool, the venue of the recent Conservative Conference, and from the lobbies of the House of Commons, we must regretfully warn our readers th a t " the Bad Business ” is certainly not ended. In view of Britain’s pledge to Canada, given a t Ottawa, our Government had no