THE TABLET A Weekly N ew spaper a n d R eview
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 162. No. 4860.
L o n d o n , J u l y i , 1933.
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R eg is tered at the Gen e ra d P o st Off ic e as a Newspape»
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News and No t e s .............. 1 Russia Once More . . . 5 The Grain B a rb ers.............. 6 Exeter’s Octocentenary . . . 7 Reviews :
A Concept of Space . . . 8 Ceremonial Background 8 Damien of Molokai . . . 9 New Books and Music . . . 10 The Nottingham Diocesan
Eucharistic Congress . . . 10 Universities Catholic Educa
tion Board .............. 11
CONT
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Speech Day at Beaumont
College ......................... 12 The Society of St. Vincent de Paul ......................... 12 Episcopal Engagements 15 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 17 L etters to the Ed it or :
Ad Romanos .............. 19 Back to the Land . . . 19 Vlamertinghe .............. 19 Salesian Ordinations . . . 19
ENTS
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Et Ce t e r a ................... 20 Catholic Education Notes . . . 21 Obituary ......................... 21 The Blessed Sacrament
Guilds .......................... 22 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ................... 22 Aston’s Church Consecrated 22 Abbot Cummins: A
Diamond Jubilee Presentation ..................................... 22
Orbis Terrarum :
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England ....................... 23 Wales ......................... 24 Ireland ......................... 24 India ......................... 26 Spain ......................... 26 The Bishop-Elect of North
ampton ......................... 28 Coming Events .............. 28 Social and P ersonal . . . 28 Ch e s s .................................... 28
NOTANDA An English Catholic society initiates a worldwide movement. Mass and the H o ly Year (p. 4).
Hungry Russia. The fearful plight o f the “ grain-barbers ” (p. 6). M. Kerensky on the Soviet’ s failure (p. 5).
Infallibility. The crooked argument o f a Protestant journalist (p. 3).
H ow to give the Bishop-elect o f Northampton a good send-off from Shefford to his episcopal seat (p. 4).
Is France a Catholic country? Some French statistics; and an Englishman’ s recent experiences (p. 4).
Eucharistic demonstrations. The Blessed Sacrament Guilds’ festival services at Westminster and at Southwark (p. 2 2 ) ; and the Diocesan Eucharistic Congress at Nottingham (p. 10).
W h y divisions were suspended in Dail Eireann on Friday evening last week (p. 26).
The coming o f the S.V .P . to England. Mr. Leonard C. Lindsay relates the story o f the Society’s work in this country since 1844 (p. 12).
Party would have failed in their duty if they had not made Ministers understand that India’s future is so grave a matter that re-consideration o f some points in the official policy may not unreasonably be asked for. That India should be a theme outside and above Parties is a praiseworthy id e a l : but many— very many— public-spirited and disinterested men are afraid lest, in practice, the tendencies o f certain political Parties which are tepid towards the Empire may be allowed excessive play. In redeeming our solemn and repeated promises to India we must give her the full benefit o f our own experience. This means that the failures and inherent defects o f democratic institutions, as well as their successes and merits, must be remembered when we work out a large measure o f self-government for India. Moreover, the Parties at which we have hinted are traditionally slow to understand that Democracy’s evolution in Christendom has been conditioned by facts and circumstances very different from India’s. In short, the statesmen o f those Parties are inclined to be doctrinaires and to believe that everything in the seething pot o f India can be comfortably run into a European mould to set and cool.
NEWS AND NOTES F OR patriots who look at things all round, Wednesday was a good day in British politics. The much-discussed meeting o f the Conservative Party on India took place at last. After a debate which was almost entirely admirable, Mr. Baldwin obtained a majority large enough to avert a Ministerial crisis in Great Britain, but not so large as to dissemble the indisputable fact that a considerable body o f intelligent opinion is critical of the White Paper. A change of His Majesty’s advisers at a crucial stage in the course o f the Economic Conference would have been a disaster. On the other hand, the minority in the Conservative New Series. Vol. CXXX. No. 4,259.
Sir Robert Home exhorts us to shake off defeatist fears concerning the Economic Conference. It was inevitable that the cheerfulness o f the first week should give place to a more sombre mood ; for the simple reason that the second and third weeks have had to be devoted to those heaps o f detail which look hopeless until they are doggedly sorted out and tidied up. I f the problems to be faced were not very difficult indeed, there would have been no need to bring together the whole world’s emissaries in London ; and therefore premature pessimism is unreasonable, as well as disloyal to the common cause. For the moment, the chief obstacle is President Roosevelt’s resolve to mend his own country’s domestic situation by raising prices before committing the U.S.A. to hurried schemes o f currency stabilization in the Old World. The
