THE TABLET y l Weekly 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.
Vol. 160. No. 4,829. London, November 26, 1932.
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N ew s and No t e s ...........685 All Can Help ................ 689 Catholic Books in the
F a lk n e r Collection . . . 689 Sidelights on W illiam of Wykeham ............................... 690 F rom The Tablet of Ninety
Y ears Ago
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Books Received ................692 R e v ie w s :
A frican F r u i t ................692 W a r G u i l t ....................... 693 A S lade P ro fesso r . . . 694
CONTENTS
R ev iew s ( Contd.) :
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Islam To-morrow . . . 694 Thoughts on War-time . . . 694 New Books and Music . . . 695 A Re-opening a t E d in burgh 696 St. H ugh’s F east Day a t
Lincoln ................................698 Ch e s s 699 Old Hall. The P a tro n a l
Festival ............................... 699 Correspondence :
Rome (O u r Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) ............................... 701
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The Foreign Missions . . . 702 Liverpool Cathedral __. . . 702 E t Ce t e r a ................................70 3 Catholic Education Notes 704 L e t t e r s to t h e E d i t o r :
The Bellarm ine Society 705 R ussia and D isarm ament 705 Obituary ................................70 6 Coming E vents ................... 706 Religious Lectures a t H e re
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Or b i s T e r r arum :
England ............................... 707
Orb is Terrarum (C ontd.)
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I r e la n d . . . ................ 708 China ................ 708 F ran ce . *. ................ 708 Germany . a. 709 Holland ................ 709 I ta ly . . . ................ 709 Mexico ................ 710 Poland ................ 710 Spain ................ 710 Sw itzerland ...................7 12 Yugoslavia ................ 712 Social and P ersonal . . 712
NOTANDA “ A Council of War ” to fight Unemployment. A Tablet leader-writer explains how all can help the Government (p. 6B9).
The re-opening of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh. Cardinal Bourne’s sermon; and some notes on the building and its history (p. 696).
Three Anglican Deans on the recent antiModernist Manifesto. “ Sound learning ” again (p. 686).
Compline as the chief ingredient of a broadcast service. A noteworthy transmission from St. Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham (p. 688).
Liverpool’s demonstrations on behalf of the Foreign Missions. Ten thousand Catholics, young and old, at meetings in the stadium (p. 702).
The new Session of Parliament. A disputable passage in the Speech from the Throne (p. 685).
Back to the Land. A pamphlet for Catholics to study (p. 687).
The resurrection of Northern France. M. Herriot’s remarkable figures (p. 687).
NEWS AND NOTES ' I ‘'H E legal maxim which affirms th a t the King A can do no wrong does not mean that we must ascribe infallibility to the Speech which is put into His Majesty’s mouth by the Government of the day at the opening of Parliament. Therefore we can, without impropriety, offer some remarks concerning the Speech delivered by our Sovereign to the Lords and Commons last Tuesday.
Plis advisers caused the Monarch to begin his speech with the words : “ My relations with foreign Powers continue to be friendly.” We respectfully suggest that the Crown is poorly served when Ministers put into the mouth of our King a statement which millions of his subjects must regret and resent. Our country’s relations with Russia, a Power of enormous territorial extent and of in
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estimable military possibilities, are not " friendly ” in the full sense of that beautiful old word. This criticism of ours would not be answered by the rejoinder that most of His Majesty’s present Ministers are certainly brimful of kindness towards Moscow. His Majesty spoke of relations; and relations are bi-lateral. However friendly certain high-placed Britons may be to Russia, it is indisputable that Russia is not friendly to the British Empire. Rather is she actively and doggedly hostile. Her paid agents have gone so far in trying to overturn our Throne and our institutions that it became necessary, only a few weeks ago, for the British Ambassador in Moscow to deliver a Note of protest to the Government in that city. So far as the British public is aware, no satisfactory reply has been made to our Ambassador ; and, meanwhile, anti-British speeches are being delivered on our own soil by Russia’s agents. We gave a sample of such utterances only last week, showing that Moscow’s designs against this Kingdom and the British Empire are frankly confessed. Surely there ought to have been a few words in the King’s Speech rejoicing over the loyalty and good behaviour of the enormous majority of King George’s subjects and making it plain that alien conspiracies against our internal peace will not be tolerated.
As The Tablet enters many houses in the U.S.A. where no other English periodical is taken, we wish to say that there is no exaggeration in the language of the foregoing paragraph. We there spoke of the loyalty and good behaviour of the enormous majority of King George’s subjects. Nobody who was in the streets on the morning of Armistice Day or among the crowds which acclaimed Their Majesties last Tuesday, could honestly express any doubt on this point. But Moscow’s mischiefmakers in our midst have been given so easy a run th a t they have succeeded in conveying false notions to persons overseas. A glaring instance of misrepresentation has come to light during the present week. Many of our transatlantic readers know the New York paper the Daily Mirror. We are sorry to say that the paper named recently published
