THE TABLET A W e ek ly 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 V E S TR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 162. No. 4864.
London, July 29, 1933.
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New s and No t e s .......... 129 Rome and the Reich . . . 133 The Transfiguration of the
Church ............................ 133 Thabor’s Glory ............. 134 R e v ie w s :
Friedrich Von Hiigel . . . 138 In Sight of Ailsa Craig . . . 138 Sermons— and More Ser
mons ............................ 138 Mr. Frankau’ s Delusion 138 Balcer-Cressy and Weld-
B l u n d e l l .................... 139 New Books and Music . . . 140
C O N T
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Books Received ............... 140 The Catholic Union . . . 141 A New Church in Caer
narvonshire 142 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years Ago ............................143 The Nurses’ Congress at
Lourdes ............................ 143 Ch e s s .................................. 143 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 145
E N T S
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Consecration of the Bishop of Northampton ................. 147 Coming E vents ...................1 47 The Ancient Sea-Kings of the P a c i f i c ............................ 147 Catholic Education Notes . . . 148 L etters to the E d i t o r :
The “ Anglo - Catholic ”
Pretension ................148 John K e b le ............................ 149 E t C / E T E R A ...............................1 50 Ob it u ary ...............................1 51 W i l l s .............................. 151
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London University Examinations ...............................1 51 Orb is Terrarum :
England ............................ 152 Ireland ............................ 152 Australia ............................ 154 Austria ............................ 154 Canada ............................ 154 France ...............................1 54 India 156 Poland ............................ 156 U .S .A .......................................... 156 Ordinations at Ampleforth
Abbey .............................. 156 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 156
N O T A N D A
Next week’s Feast o f the Transfiguration. Some preparatory articles (pp. 133, 134).
The H o ly See’ s Concordat with all Germany. Its provisions (p. 145). A Tablet leader-writer bespeaks tact and consideration fo r non-Catholic Germans (p. 133).
Northampton. The consecration o f the new Bishop (p. 147).
Methodism and its pastors. The admission o f women to the ministry (p. 131).
The Ghouls o f the Press. Lady Ellerman’s narrative and protest (p. 132).
“ Feng the Christian General ” once more. W ho are now his Christian associates in China? (p. 130).
The past year’ s work o f the Catholic Union o f Great Britain. A survey o f the annual report (p. 141).
O f the new church at Portmadoc, Caernarvonshire, and its great privilege. A Welsh writer’s personal impressions o f the scenes on the opening day (p. 142).
N E W S A N D N O T E S \ X 7H IL E we sit writing this paragraph, delegates
' ’ to the World Economic Conference are listening to funeral orations over that hapless enterprise. So far, the mood of disappointment over a tragic breakdown has not engendered bitter recriminations. It would be easy to allocate blame for the fiasco ; and it would be as useless as it would be easy. What the nations have to do is to assimilate the lessons taught by this failure and to try again for success, in a victorist spirit. Perhaps, however, it will be necessary to abandon the League-ofNations-like rule requiring unanimity among the six and sixty nations. This rule was born out o f the fear that a Sovereign State might be robbed of its sovereignty if the vote o f an overwhelming majority were accepted instead of unanimity. But what if the Sovereign States agree beforehand to maj ority decisions ? In such a case, their sovereignty would be safeguarded. It could always be stipulated that any clearly exceptional circumstances must be borne in mind and that individual States must not be coerced into accepting arrangements which, in particular cases, would be outrageous and insufferable.
Strong language is so unusual in the House of Lords that the peers, temporal as well as spiritual, sat up and took notice on Friday afternoon of last week. “ Deliberate and calculated swindling ” was Lord Newton’s considered description of Soviet Russia’s commercial dealings with Britain. “ No good,” added his lordship, “ ever comes o f trying to do business with criminals.” Lord Newton wound up with a censure upon the Labour Party. It was very stern but not unjust. He declared that if the Mussolinists or Hitlerites “ had been guilty o f a hundredth part of the crimes which the Soviet Government has perpetuated,” the British Labour Party would long ago have raised so violent an outcry that Anglo-German or Anglo-Italian relations would have had to be broken off. As The Tablet is not affiliated, either directly or indirectly, to any political group, we do not relish printing this grave indictment of one Party in our national life ; but we should be poor friends of Labour if we did not take our share in trying to dissuade Labour leaders from a policy which involves them in hypocrisy and compromises them with inhumanity.
That German, Italian, and Spanish ought to be read and spoken b y many more Britons than the few who read and speak those tongues to-day is a plea often made in our “ News and Notes ” : and therefore we should rejoice, in normal circumstances, over the departure of many English youths to Munich and other German towns for the
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