THE TABLET N 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 V E S TR IS CONSTANTER MAN EAT IS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 162. No. 4871. London, September 16, 1933.
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N e w s a n d N o t e s ................. Page 353 A Christian State .............. 357 Iraq’ s Assyrians .............. 357 United Ireland .............. 358 Entrapped Youth .............. 359 “ The Pest and Passion
Y o w ” .............................. 360 R e v i e w s :
The Christian Life 361 A Book to Buy .............. 362 To End or Mend Capital
ism ......................... 362
CONTENTS
R e v i e w s ( Contd.) :
In Shetland with a Shet
Page lander ............................ 363 A-Hunting We Will Go 364 Boohs Received ................. 364 New Books and Music . . . 364 The Bishop of Northamp
ton's First Pastoral . . . 365 W i l l s 365 Catholic Education Notes 366 C o m in g E v e n t s .................... 366 Ch e s s 3 67
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C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................369 ! E t C /E T E R A .......................... 371 j Consecration of Mgr. Porter 372
O b i t u a r y ..................................3 7 2 The British Association . . . 373 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years Ago ............. 373 i The New Church at Dagen} h a m ............................... 374
Vienna’s Great Week . . . 374
Or b is T errarum :
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England ............................ 375 Scotland ............................ 376 Ireland ............................ 376 Belgian Congo ................. 377 Canada ............................ 377 China ............................ 377 Egypt ............................ 378 France ............................ 378 Germany ............................378 Italy 378 Spain ............................ 378 S o c i a l a n d P e r s o n a l 378
NOTANDA The Concordat between the H o ly See and the German Reich. Last Sunday’s exchange o f ratifications (p. 370).
Austria’s pluck and piety. Her Catholic Congress and her Catholic policy (pp. 357, 374).
Ireland. The accomplished fact o f Opposition fusion. Its bearing on Irish Unity (p. 358).
The British Association’s Leicester meetings. A Tablet Note-W riter comments on sundry papers and speeches. A visit to Besford Court (pp. 355, 373).
Calm words on the Nestorian Assyrians in Iraq. Their need o f a National Home (p. 357).
A t long last, the Spanish Republic has a new Ministry. The Ex-Prem ier’ s bad record (pp. 353, 380).
The Bishop o f Northampton’s first pastoral letter. H is lordship’s tribute to his predecessor in the diocese (p. 365).
Schools with “ the most up-to-date equipment ” fo r less than £210 apiece! Where, but not how, these buildings are to be provided (p. 366).
Next week’s “ Anti-W ar ” Congress in Paris. Its sponsors and its character (p. 359).
NEWS AND NOTES AUSTRO-GERMAN tension has given out sounds so shrill that the essential message of this week’s celebrations in Vienna has wholly failed to reach the ears of millions who need it. The twohundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Turkish defeat outside Vienna on September 12, 1683, is full of lessons for the Christendom o f to-day. In the seventeenth century, the false religion o f the Crescent moved westward to overthrow the Cross ; and in the twentieth the Cross is threatened by desperate men who believe in no religion at all. In 1683, it was the
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Catholic Faith which inspired the West’s enthusiastic and triumphant resistance ; and in 1933 it is again the Vicar of Christ whose voice is heard against the Eastern Menace. When John Sobieski, Catholic King of Poland, resolved to deliver besieged Vienna from the infidel he set out on the Feast o f Our Lady’s Assumption ; and his last act before leaving Poland was to send a letter to Pope Innocent X I , in which he said “ I mount my charger to join in a Holy War and, with God’s help, to give back to Vienna her ancient liberty.” The brave King added : “ Right well do I trust, with your apostolic blessings and fatherly love upholding me, that Your Holiness will not abandon me when the moment comes to plunge into the fray for the glory o f the Cross and for the preservation of the Christian world.” When the battle was joined, the Grand Vizier’s Turks, 180,000 strong, heavily outnumbered the Christians, but the issue of that memorable day was a smashing defeat o f the Ottoman power. King John, after nearly eight hours of hard fighting, routed the enemy, who fled, leaving all their artillery, horses, stores and camp equipment behind. Heaven grant that Christendom in the very near future may hurl back the AntiGod drive without war and bloodshed ; but even in fighting with the pen and with the voice we must rely, as did John Sobieski and his men, upon the Lord God of Hosts. Such is Vienna’s lesson for us this w e e k ; and, in comparison with it, the Nazi success in depriving the Congress o f its pan-German character is a trivial thing.
Figures are before us now which were lacking last week, when we made mention o f the election o f 15 Spaniards to serve on the new Court o f Constitutional Guarantees. As the electors in this case were the Municipal Councillors o f Spain, and as the Government had taken care last April to hold only partial Municipal Elections, not more than about 50,000 votes could be cast on this occasion. The Government candidates are said to have secured 12,910 v o t e s ; but this is too high an estimate because it includes votes given to three
