THE TABLET u4 Weekly Newspaper and Review
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. 4877. L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 28, 1933.
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R eg is tered at the General P ost O f f ic e as a New spaper.
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New s and No t e s .............. 553 Hush, Hush 1 .............. 557 Cardiff’ s Two Cathedrals . . . 558 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 560 “ Devon Nook ” 560 R e v ie w s :
Dr. Hecker Answered . . . 561 Shake-Spear ................. 562 The Roman Road . . . 562 Charles Bradlaugh . . . 563 Katherine Mansfield’ s
Youth ............................ 563
CONTENTS
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Books Received ................. 564 New Books and Music . . . 564 Sermons for the Times . . . 565 Ch e s s ......................................... 567 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 569 The Society of St. Augus
tine of Canterbury . . . 570 Et C/ETERA...............................571 Catholic Education Notes 572 Liverpool Cathedral . . . 573
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Letters to the Ed it o r :
Father Charles Blount . . . 574 ‘ ‘ Castles in the A i r ” . . . 574 The Seriousness of Mr.
Gaselee ............................ 574 A Pilgrimage for Poor Women ............................574 “ The Present State of
Reviewing” ............ 574 Obitu ary ...............................5 75 Harvington Hall ............576 Coming E vents ............. 576 Russia’s Catholic Priests 576 “ The Grail ” ......... 576
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More New Midland
Churches ......................... 576 Orb 1s Terrarum :
Orb is T errarum (Oontd.) England 577 Ireland 578 Abyssinia 578 Australia 578 Canada 578 France 579 Honduras 579 Spain 579 L'.S.A. 580 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 580
NOTANDA Red Russia makes progress. President Roosevelt’ s move towards Recognition. “ The Red Flag ” at a London by-election (pp. 553, 554).
False Pacifism. A Tablet leader writer’ s warning to Catholic leaders and teachers (p. 557).
Llandaff. Notes o f a recent visit to a littleknown Cathedral (p. 558).
M. Daladier’s fall. Some remarks on the finances o f France (p. 555).
Herr Hitler on Poland. W ords which need to be accredited by deeds (p. 555).
Unmarried mothers. A brief account o f “ Devon Nook,” the new hostel o f the Westminster Diocese (pp. 556, 560).
Rudeness from Ripon. A case fo r the Bishop o f Bradford (p. 556).
The centenary o f the Daughters o f the Cross. Dom Vincent Scully, C.R.L., surveys the history and work o f the Congregation, and points a lesson from the condition o f the world to-day (p. 565).
Another great gathering at Brownlow Hill. Last Sunday’s demonstration on the Cathedral site (p. 573).
NEWS AND NOTES T j 'A ST FULHAM, one o f London’s western suburbs, has roughly shaken the National Government. Until a few weeks ago, the constituency was represented in the House of Commons by a Conservative who had been sent to Parliament with a majority o f 12,333 votes over the combined poll of his two opponents. To-day, East Fulham has a Labour Member who has beaten the Conservative candidate by 4,840 votes. I f this were merely a victory o f Constitutional Labour over Constitutional Conservatism, The Tablet, as a nonparty paper, could not say much about it. But there is more to tell. The winner o f last Wednesday’s by-election was acclaimed with the singing
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of “ The Red Flag.” Before polling-day there had been ugly attempts, by stink-bombs and organised disturbance, to break up the Conservative meetings. The situation must be faced. In many English constituencies, revolutionary movements have made great and rapid progress this year. Only a few days ago, Moscow’s Central Communist Publishing Office issued in Russian, English, French, German and Spanish, a document calling upon its sympathisers outside Russia to “ exploit the rising tide o f discontent,” to “ convert this discontent into a gigantic struggle of the proletariat,” to “ worm a way b y all possible means into the vital branches of industry,” and to “ push forward the revolutionary programme.”
Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Baldwin are not entitled to any sympathy in their hour of consternation. The Hush Hush Anglo-Russian policy, of which we speak in a leading article to-day, has dulled our people’s ears to the revolutionary peril. In one sense. East Fulham makes us glad. The loud echoes of ‘ ‘ The Red F l a g ” may awaken the nation from a drowse which is treason to Faith and Fatherland.
That the statesmen and journalists who have all along been stout believers in the Conference for the Limitation of Armaments should oppose the dissolution of that body is not surprising. Apart from the pique which would be theirs if the Conference were wholly disbanded, its champions must be given credit for humanitarian motives. The Geneva meetings have cost a very large sum of money, and many square miles of paper have been covered with articles encouraging the peoples of the earth to hope for lower taxation and a higher standard o f living as a consequence of agreed Limitation. To have to confess that so much cash and breath and ink have been wasted would be a humiliation ; and therefore we must not be harsh in our judgments when we hear earnest pleas for a continuance o f the meetings. On the other hand, we must not be sentimental about the Conference. W ith Japan and Germany practically gone from the League o f Nations, and
