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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANE AT IS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1X70
N o t . i 6o . N o . 4,831. L o n d o n , D e c e m b e r 10, 1932.
S i x p e n c e .
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News and Notes . . . Pages ... 773 “ Dear Little Things ’ ’ ... 777 In Primo Instanti Sine
Labe .............. ... 778 Cardinal Bourne ... 779 The Christmas “ Tablet ” 779 R ev iew s :
The Alexandrine Thinkers 780 A Book of S p ie s ................. 780 The Woes of Oothoon 780 Some Cards and Calen
dars ............................ 781 Animal Psychology ... 782 Books Received ................. 782 New Books and Music ... 783
CONTENTS
Advent Pastorals: Pages
Birmingham
. . . 784
Liverpool .............. ... 784 The New Chapel at Farnborough Hill
I'llKSs .............. Correspondence : ... 787
. . . 786
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 789 Eucharistic C o n g r e s s
Honours ... ... ••• 790 Belgian War Dead in Lon
don . . . ... ... ••• 790 Catholic Education Notes ... 790 Obituary ............................791
Et Cætera
Letters to tile Editor :
Religious Instruction in
Pages
792
Schools .............. ...793 “ Adversity” Hoover . . . 793 “ World Without E nd” 793 “ The Tablet” ................. 793 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years Ago
Catholic Women’s League 794 W il ls ............................ 794 Coming Events ................. 794 Orbis Terrarum:
793
England .............. ...7 94 Scotland ............................ 795 Ireland ............................ 795
Orb is Terrarum (Oontd.)
Pages
Austria ............................ 795 Belgian Congo ................. 795 Belgium ............................ 796 Canada ............................ 796 China ............................ 796 Equador ............................ 796 France ............................ 798 Germany ............................ 798 Holland ............................ 798 Hong Kong ................. 798 India 798 Italy 798 Spain 800 Tanganyika ................. 800 Social and Personal . . . S00
NOTANDA Cardinal Bourne’s illness. Good news from the Eternal City (pp. 779, 789).
The sacrilege at Wells-on-Sea. A Juvenile Court’s amazing decision. “ Dear little things ” (p. 777).
Pastoral exhortations. The Archbishop o f B irmingham and the Archbishop o f Liverpool point, in warning words, to assaults upon Christianity in an era o f destructive thought (p. 784).
M oscow ’s subversive propaganda. A welcome announcement in the House o f Commons (p. 774).
A soldier-Chancellor as well as a soldierPresident. General von Schleicher succeeds Herr von Papen (p. 774).
The Manifesto o f the F ifty . Modernism in High places (p. 775).
Some thoughts on the Immaculate Conception. A n article continued and concluded (p. 778).
Catholic progress in India, Burma, and Ceylon. A ten years' statistical comparison (p. 798).
NEWS AND NOTES 'T 'H E chilly shadow which descended upon the
-*• Church in England a week ago has been mercifully lifted. Last Sunday, millions o f prayers were offered-— and not offered in vain— for Cardinal Bourne’s recovery from a dangerous illness. All day long, and especially in the presence o f the Blessed Sacrament, British Catholics prayed that their leader might be spared to them, in . fu l ly restored health and strength. There are threescore and ten Cardinals, when the Sacred College is fu lly con s titu ted ; yet here in England people speak o f “ the ” Cardinal. “ The Cardinal has promised to com e ,” “ The Cardinal will preach,” “ The Cardinal will take the chair ” are such familiar expressions that we have com e to regard His Eminence almost as our grandparents regarded
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Queen Victoria. Therefore it was a rude shock as well as a deep grief to hear from Rome that the Cardinal might not recover. Proof o f the affection in which we all hold our chief was found in the great response o f the faithful to the appeals for prayer. Moreover, the cloud had a silver lining. That the Archbishop o f Westminster is a national figure, highly esteemed outside as well as inside the Church, has long been a well-known fact ; but we were hardly prepared for the widespread solicitude with which the news o f his illness was received. Every evening, until the crisis ended, the announcers o f the British Broadcasting Corporation gave out the latest bulletin. Newspapers which are not usually over-kind to Catholics published successive telegrams from Rome as important news o f the day instead o f condensing them in their list o f distinguished invalids. We must adjust ourselves to a rather long absence o f the Cardinal from our midst, because England in winter is not the ideal Convalescent Home for a man well advanced in his seventies ; but, when he is back among us, His Eminence will be more than ever valued and supported.
A t the moment o f our writing these lines, it seems to be agreed that Britain’s instalment o f War-debt to the U.S.A., which falls due on Thursday o f next week, will be paid. Less certain is the mode o f payment. Nothing has happened to weaken the force o f our Notes (published in this place last week) on the risks which would attend the delivering-up o f nearly one-sixth o f our accumulated gold-stocks. On the other hand, keen-sighted men are more and more sure that America would hurt herself as well as Britain b y insisting that her already excessive hoards o f inert gold shall be further augmented. There are persistent rumours o f a “ technical ” and procrastinatory settlement by giving our creditor something in the nature o f a renewable bill-of-exchange which Washington would not discount but would hold until maturity. Such an arrangement would obviate D e fa u l t ; but we do not like the look o f it. Absolute Default in
