November 2 5, 1933.
THE TABLET s i W e e k ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v ie w
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S T R IS CONSTANTER MAN EAT1S
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
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L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 2 5 , 1 9 3 3 .
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R ï Q I S T IM D AT T i l l & IK IR A 1, POST OFFICE AS A N lW S P A P IB .
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News and No t e s ................. 681 Las Mujeres Españolas . . . 685 The Ma/yor of Warrington. 685 The Law of Malta and the
Administration Thereof . . . 687 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 689 Reviews :
“ The “ Reformers ” in
Italy ............................ 689 The Vulgate and Its
V a r i a n t s ............................690 A Seventeenth - Century
Squire ............................ 690 Outstanding Novels . . . 691
CONTENTS
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New Books and Music . . . 692 Books Received ................. 693 Cardinal Bourne’s Golden
Jubilee ............................ 694 A Yorkshire Church De
stroyed ............................ 694 Coming Events ................. 694 Obituary ............................ 695 The Church and Usury . . . 695 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 697
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Et C.e t e r a ............................ 699 Catholic Education Notes ... 700 The Catholic Association
Reunion ............................ 700 Letters to the Editor:
The Late Abbot Chapman 701 Cardinal Newman and
Scripture .............. 701 “ Castles in the A i r ” . . . 701 Lunacy Law Reform . . . 701 The Catholic Poetry Society 701 The Catholic Federation
Dinner ............................ 702
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The Eucharistic Congress... 702 Ch e s s .......................................702 Orbis Terrarum:
England ............................ 703 Scotland ............................ 704 Ireland ............................ 705 A r g e n t i n a ............................ 706 France ............................ 706 Indo-China 706 I t a l y .......................................706 L i t h u a n i a ............................ 706 Poland ............................ 708 Spain ............................ 708 U.S.A....................................... 708 Social and Personal . . . 708
NOTANDA December 3. H ow Catholics in the Archdiocese o f Westminster can honour, on that day, the Cardinal Archbishop’s fiftieth year in the priesthood (p. 694).
Spain’s General Election. A Tablet leader-writer makes an interim comment on the success o f the Right (p. 685).
Britain’s oldest colony. Proposals fo r the better government o f Newfoundland (p. 681).
“ United Services.” A case at Warrington reported and interpreted in a Tablet article (p. 685).
Tristan da Cunha. What the Royal Research Ship “ Discovery II ” did not deliver to the Islanders (p. 684).
Malta. ITistorico-legal Notes on the extent and limits o f the British Crown’ s rights (p. 687).
Washington grasps the hand o f Moscow. A lamentable decision (p. 682).
The Poet Laureate’s good example to the unclean fiction-writers o f to-day. A sailorman’ s outstanding novel as clean as a sea-breeze (p. 691).
Augustine Birrell. A great battle fo r the schools recalled, in which Catholics won the victory (pp. 699, 700).
NEWS AND NOTES A L IT T L E before noon last Tuesday, Their
Majesties our K ing and Queen went from Buckingham Palace to the House o f Lords in order to open the third Session o f the present Parliament. During the whole progress o f the royal cortège, His Majesty sat bare-headed, acknowledging the plaudits o f the crowd, while one-and-forty guns in St. James’s Park made a ground-bass fo r the chiming bells o f Westminster. In reading his gracious Speech, the Sovereign spoke with so strong and clear a voice as to confirm our trust that his New S e r ie s . Vol. CXXX. No. 4280.
health is almost wholly restored, and that His Majesty will be spared “ long to reign over us.”
It is not through want o f trying that the H o ly See and certain South American Catholic Republics have failed to make peace between Bolivia and Paraguay. The Gran Chaco is truly gran in extent, and means so much to both the poor States which claim it that neither will give way. W e are glad to state, however, that the H o ly See, with Argentina’s co-operation, has arranged with the disputants that prisoners, especially invalids, shall be exchanged at once. ________
Although we speak o f our “ Sister ” Nations in the British Commonwealth, we also call Great Britain the “ Mother ” Country. This is as it should be. The Dominions have ceased to be children; but when they are in trouble or perplexity we are ready with maternal sympathy and aid. Newfoundland’s is a case in point. The Royal Commission which has been studying that island’s politics and finance recommend that the Mother Country shall, fo r a time, supersede the local party politicians, and manage the Debt. _________
Newfoundland is a land o f paradoxes. It is said to be “ new found ” ; yet it was found (b y Cabot, o f Bristol) in 1497, before any other o f those territories which are now His Majesty’s Dominions overseas had been discovered. It is further south than is England: yet it is colder. W ith equal accuracy, you can call the island in the Strait which separates Newfoundland from Labrador either “ Belle Isle ” or “ The Isle o f Demons.” In constitutional theory, Newfoundland is free; yet in actual political practice she is enslaved, or at least exploited, by partisans.
That Newfoundland should become a Federal State o f a larger Canada is a remedy fo r her ills which has been prescribed by many a publicist; but
