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THE TABLET y l W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w

DUM V O B I S G RATULAM UR A N IM O S E T IA M AD D IM U S UT I N IN C C EPTIS V E S T R I S C O N S T AN T E R M A N E A T I S

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

V o l . 160 . No. 4,825.

L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 29, 19 3 2 .

S i x p e n c e .

R eg is tered at the General P o st Of f i c e a s a New s p a p e r .

CONT

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New s and No t e s ................. 5 5 7 | To-morrow ................................. 561 | Fascismo’ s Second Decade 562 1 Sidelights on W illiam of

Wykeham ..................................5 62 R e v i e w s :

Roma Im m o r ta l is .....................5 63 Outstanding Novels . . . 5 64 A Victorian Reformer . . . 565

“ A Charming Variety ” 566 New Books and Music . . . 566 Books Received .....................5 67 A Layman’s Answer to Dr.

Barnes .............................. 568 |

From The Tablet of Ninety

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Years A g o ..................................5 68 Catalunya and the Montessori Method .....................5 69 A Campion Play .....................5 69 Catholic Education Notes . . . 570 Com in g E v e n t s .................... 5 71 Ch e s s ............................................... 571 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ..................................5 73 Catholic W o rk for Israel . . . 574

A School Extension at

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Golders Green .................... 5 75 Episcopal Engagements . . . 5 75 W i l l s ..................................5 75 E t CiETERA..................................5 76 L etters to th e Ed it o r :

Calling a Spade a Spade 577 Unpardonable Sin . . . 577 Ob it u ary ..................................5 77 The W ork of the C .E .G . . . . 578 Orbi s Terrarum :

England ..................................5 79 Scotland ..................................5 80 Wales ..................................5 80

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Ireland

Denmark

Egypt

France

Germany

Holland

Poland

Siam

South Africa

Spain

Switzerland...

Yugoslavia . . .

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So c ia l and P ersonal . . 5 8 4

N O T A N D A “ The H o ly Father’s Day.” A Tablet leaderwriter explains why to-m orrow will not be called “ The Sovereign Pontiff’s Day ” (p. 561).

Many Notes on M oscow ’ s activities and M oscow ’ s British friends. The puzzles o f Mr. George Lansbtirv and Mr. Stanley Baldwin (pp. 558-9).

A “ Catholic Crusade ” citadel in an Anglican parish o f Manchester (p. 559).

The end o f the Tudors. Mrs. W ilfr id W ard’ s good novel (p. 564).

Fascismo enters upon its second decade. A welcome announcement o f amnesty (p. 562).

In the first instalment o f a paper on W illiam o f Wykeham, Father Etienne R obo glances at the upbringing and character o f that great prelate and founder (p. 562).

A letter in answer to Dr. Barnes, in which the Protestant Bishop is outranged and outclassed by a Catholic layman (p. 568).

NEWS AND NOTES

T six o ’clock on Thursday evening o f last week,

listeners-in heard the British Broadcasting Corporation’s newsman announce that a deputation “ from the Churches ” o f this country had visited the Prime Minister to plead the cause o f Disarmament. A few hours later, when the Second News Bulletin came to be broadcast, the original announcement was enlarged by the words “ Except the Roman Catholics.” Readers of The Tablet, both Catholic and Protestant, have written to us asking that light shall be thrown on this affair through our “ News and Notes.” We comply with their request.

First, we confess our ignorance on a minor point. The Tablet does not know whether a friendly or

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a hostile intervener made the B .B .C .’s Revised Version by adding “ Except the Roman Catholics.” Touchy Catholics feel sure that the words were added to bring odium upon u s ; but we prefer to believe that they were included in the Second Bulletin merely for the sake o f accuracy. Seeing that the Catholics o f England form the largest homogeneous religious body in this country, it would have been incorrect and misleading to say baldly that “ the Churches ” had sent a jo in t deputation to Downing Street. Whatever may have been the motive and the spirit o f it, we are glad that a rectification was made.

Now for the major point. Catholics are in a different position from Protestants where great world-affairs, such as Disarmament, are concerned. From the Vatican Hill there speaks to all mankind a Voice more trumpet-like than any coalitionary utterance o f a deputation to Downing Street. In his brief yet weighty Encyclical Nova Impendet (October 2, 1931), the Sovereign Pontiff spoke on three problem s : the Economic Crisis, Unemployment, and “ The Ever-increasing Output o f Weapons of War.” Nothing could have been plainer than the words o f His Holiness, Who said :

The acute crisis which We lament is at one and, the same time the Effect o f the rivalry among nations, and the Cause of the enormous squandering of public moneys ; and these two evils are to no small extent due to the excessive and ever-increasing competition in the output of military stores and implements of war. Cause and E f f e c t ! What could be more searching and sound than the Pontiff’s diagnosis ?

Mr. MacDonald’s Ministry, of about sixty senior and junior Ministers, does not include one Catholic. Our critics expect us to be satisfied with exclusion from the Government ; and we do not make noisy complaint against this inequality. But they undervalue the force o f our Catholic convictions when they expect us to condone the British Government’s inattention to the words o f the H oly Father. I f we