THE TABLET
A 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 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.
Vol. 161. No. 4,840. London, F ebruary i i , 1933.
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News and No t e s ..........161 The Great I l lu s io n ......... 165 Another Septuagésima . . . 166 Lourdes Remembered . . . 166 St. Valentine and His Cata
combs ............................167 R eview s :
Lusseau and Collomb . . . 168 Father Augustine Baker,
O.S.B............................ 168 Two War B o o k s ..........169 Chinese Gordon .............170 Chestov ............................ 171 An Incomplete Revision 172 Books Received ............. 172
CONT
ENTS
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New Books and Music . . . 173 Sermons for the Times . . . 174 A Page from the Past . . . 175 1 Holy Year T r a v e l ................. 175 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’ s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 177 The Sovereign Pontiff’ s
Coronation Day ................. 178 T?rn OwrnppA 179 Catholic Education Notes 180 The “ Million Fund” . . . 181 The Catholic Prisoners’ Aid
Society ............................ 181
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Obituary
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Coming Events .............. 182 The Alan Turner Operatic
Society
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Letters to the Ed it o r :
Central European Time 183 Chair of Unity Octave 183 “ Anti-God ” Esperantists 183 Letters Held Over . . . 183 Chess 184 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 184 Don Bosco ............................ 184 Ealing’s Protest Against
Birth Control ................. 184
0 RBi s Terrarum :
Pago
England .............. . . . 185 Ireland .............. . . . 185 iEther .............. . . . 185 Algiers .............. . . . 186 China .............. . . . 186 France .............. . . . 186 Germany .............. . . . 186 India .............. . . . 186 Japan .............. . . . 186 Russia .............. . . . 188 Spain .............. . . . 188 The Sudan . . . 188 U.S.A......................... . . . 188 Social and Personal . . . 188
N O T A N D A
Cardinal Bourne’s convalescence. A welcome announcement (p. 181).
The world’s need o f supernatural help. Some timely discourses and articles (pp. 165-6).
Lourdes. A sermon by the Archbishop o f Liverpool (p. 174), and some reminiscences o f a grateful pilgrim (p. 166).
Politics in Germany. The “ Give-Hitler-aChance ” mood o f the electorate (p. 162).
Whitewash “ without size ” fo r the B.B.C. A manifesto pour rire (p. 162).
La Grande Chartreuse. A French Freemason’s manly letter (p. 186).
The diamond jubilee o f the Paulist Fathers. A link with London in the founder’s life-w ork (p. 179).
One million pounds sterling. What the Guild o f Our Lady o f Ransom hopes to do in the course o f a four years’ plan (p. 181).
On the anniversary o f the Lateran Treaty, The Tablet recalls, by a note and a pictorial supplement, a famous deputation from England to the Vatican in the days o f P io Nono (p. 175).
NEWS AND NOTES A MONG the many phases o f the conflict between Religion and Science— or, rather, between Religion and pseudo-Science— is the question o f Miracles. Pseudo-Science roundly declares that Miracles can’t and don’t happen. Religion proclaims that they can happen and do. In The Tablet’s Rome Letter last week, there was a discourse on Miracles b y our H oly Father, so beautiful that anybody who missed it ought to turn back to it and read it at once. This week, we print a sermon by the Archbishop o f Liverpool on the same theme ; and our two leading-articles exhort the faithful
; to ask and to expect divine interventions in the affairs o f this troubled world. Such discourses and articles are t im e ly ; because to-day, Saturday, is ; the Feast o f the Apparition o f that Blessed Virgin 1 to whom we s in g :
In noctis umbra plebs tua Te virgo supplex invocal May that prayer be devoutly offered and abundantly answered.
I f any good came out o f last Sunday afternoon’s Hyde Park meeting on Unemployment we have still to learn what it was. Even as a mere “ demonstration,” the gathering was without value ; because men in full employment marched in the processions and stood in front o f the platforms shoulder to shoulder with their workless brethren, thus making it impossible to determine the constitution of the crowd and the extent o f its need. Moreover, a very large fraction o f those present seemed to be sightseers who had flocked to the park in the contemptible hope o f beholding what they would have called a scrap. Expectations o f disorder had been fostered by statements made on Friday and Saturday. On behalf of the Trades Union Congress, it had been given out that the Communists would be excluded from the processions and that any attempt on their part to identify themselves with the marchers would be resisted and prevented. From the Communist side there had come a counterthreat, promising to give the T.U.C. forces an ugly surprise if the Reds were kept out. W ith all these ugly rumours in the air, the authorities rightly provided police protection for the public on a large scale and at considerable expense to the ratepayers. When the hour struck for the starting of the various units, it was found that the Communists were victors. They swelled the processions, carrying their own banners, singing revolutionary songs and selling their pamphlets along the line of march. In the Park, they had their own platforms and got the ear o f a large section o f the crowd. A boisterous wind made listening d ifficu lt; but persons who
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