T H E T A B L E T

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 of Flis Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.

Vol. 163. No. 4876.

L ondon, October 21, 1933.

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R eg is tered at the General P ost Of f ic e as a New s pape r .

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New s and No t e s ................. 521 The League that Lasts . . . 525 “ Anti - Papist Gentlemen and Societies” ................. 526 The Seal of the Confessional 526 From The Tablet of Ninety

Years A g o ............................ 527 R e v ie w s :

Can the League Secure

Peace? ............................ 527 An Art Critic’ s Memories 528 Stratford-on-Thames . . . 528 Books Received ................. 529

C O N T E N T S

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New Books and Music . . . 529 Catholic Education Notes ... 530 Coming E vents ...................5 30 Notes for Musicians . . . 531 Sunday Cinemas .................532 Ob it u a r y .............................. 532 W i l l s .................................. 533 Catenian Hosts and a Dis­

tinguished G u e s t ......... 534 The Lingard Society . . . 534 Perpetual Adoration by the

Laity

Ch e s s .................................. 535

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Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) ...............................537 Mission Sunday ................. 538 “ Beda Day ” 539 L e tters to the E d i t o r :

Heart Burial ................. 540 King Charles the Martyr 540 E t Ca e t e r a ...............................5 42 Or b i s T errarum :

England ............................ 543 Scotland ............................544

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Or b is Terrarum (Oontd.) :

Ireland ............................ 544 Canada ............................ 545 China . . . .............. 545 Equatorial Africa . . . 546 France ............................ 546 Palestine ............................ 546 Poland ............................ 546 Portugal ............................ 548 Spain ............................ 548 The Feast of Christ the

King

So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 548

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NOTANDA The Sovereign Pontiff’s visit to the basilica o f St. Mary Major. The scene in the piazza described by The Tablet’s Rome Correspondent (p. 537).

Germany forsakes the League o f Nations. Some Notes on her present temper; and a Tablet article on “ The League that Lasts ” (pp. 521, 525).

Spain’s imminent Election. The immediate aims o f the Monarchists (p. 523).

Temperance, true and false. A letter from Canada, and some comments on a deplorable speech (pp. 522-3).

Another slander against a Catholic priest. H ow a Protestant lecturer and “ revivalist ” has been brought to bay (p. 526).

The Seal o f the Confessional. The Bounden Duty o f Lady Violet Bonham-Carter and her Editor (p. 526).

“ Collegio Beda.” 1 his week’s London meetings in aid o f an indispensable institution (p. 539).

Cardinal Bourne and Sunday Cinemas. A misrepresentation corrected (p. 532).

“ The key position occupied by the Roman Catholic schools.” An educational periodical takes note o f important facts (p. 530).

NEWS AND NOTES F IFTEEN years after the firing o f the last shot in the Great War, the world finds itself living still under a prolonged Armistice instead o f a Peace. Hardly one of the agreements and treaties which followed the year 1918 stands firm. Germany, to whom her conquerors quickly gave the rare and high privilege o f a permanent seat on the Council o f the League o f Nations, is now passionately protesting that she cannot, consistently with dignity and honour, remain a member of that body. Instead o f treating her as she herself treated beaten France in the eighteen-seventies, the Allies have again

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and again reduced her agreed debt for reparations, and have lent her thousands of millions in gold marks. Y et once again Germania proclaims herself outraged. Her Philosophy o f War is “ Heads I win, Tails you lose.” Our Christianity forbids us to cry with the heathen Vae v ic t is ; but Vae victoribus is not reasonable.

When Germany was admitted to the League of Nations some years ago, an exultant meeting was held in North-West London, at which a German flag as big as the side of an ordinary six-roomed house was unfurled and displayed across the end o f the large hall amidst thunderous plaudits. At the time, The Tablet expressed regret at the proceedings. No such enthusiasm for any o f our Allies had been shown by this group o f Londoners ; and we felt it our duty to say that it would have been far better to wait a little and to see how the Germans behaved themselves in their new conditions o f political life. Our mild remarks brought us bitter reproaches, mainly from non-Catholic readers who accused us o f having neither hope nor charity. To-day, the flag which was so loudly acclaimed in London could not be flown in Germany without bringing blows and perhaps imprisonment upon those who unfurled it. The Constitution of Weimar, under which Germans were living when the Reich became a member of the League, is dead and buried and execrated. That we were right in asking British pro-Germans to wait and see does not matter at all, but we are at least entitled to beg those of our fellow-countrymen who habitually find Britain in the wrong to keep quiet just now. Events have rudely falsified their predictions, and the very least they can decently do is to leave Anglo-German affairs alone for the present. They solemnly assured us, no doubt in good faith, that the German people had experienced a deep and true change o f heart. They said that the fall and departure of the Hohenzollerns meant also the casting out of the Junker and militarist devils from the German nation, and that we could trust the New Germany