January 20, 1934.

THE TABLET u4 Weekly N ew sp aper and R ev iew

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDI MUS UT IN INCŒPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANE AT IS

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V o l . 163. No1. 4889.

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870. A,■ Y ----------- — ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A : ' L o n d o n , J a n u a r y 20, 1934. S i x p e n c e . > • R eg is tered at the Gexebad P ost Off ic e as a N ew s pape r .

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News and No t e s .............. 65 Lent Draws N e a r .............. 69 “ Born in the Trenches ” 69 The Nazi at Close Quarters 71 From The Tablet of Ninety

Years Ago ; 73 Reviews :

Sydney Smith.......................... 73 More Hulsean Lectures 74 A Frenchman on the

U.S.A. . . . . . . ' . . . 75 Logic in Blinkers . . . 75 All W r o n g ......................... 75 By Lady Petrie . . . . . . 76

CONTENTS

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New Books and Music . . . 76 Obituary ......................... 77 Coming Events .............. 78 The Junior School at Felt-

ham .................................... 78 Correspondence :

Rome ( Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 81 Cardinal Bourne .............. 83 The Holy See and Japan 83 The U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. 83 Sermons for the Times . . . 83

Letters to the Ed it o r :

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Catholic Public Schools 84 “ House to H ouse” . . . 84 Catholic Education Notes . . . 84 Books Received .............. 85 Et Ce t e r a ................... 86 'C h e s s ............................. 87 Orbis Terrarum:

England ......................... 88 Ireland ......................... 88 Canada ......................... 88 France .............................. 89 Germany ......................... 89 Hong Kong .............. 89

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Orbis Terrarum ( Gontd.) :

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India ......................... 89 Indo-C h ina................... 89 Italy 90 Japan ......................... 90 Natal 90 Spain ......................... 90 The Seychelles .............. 92 Transvaal ......................... 92 Yugo-Slavia .............. 92 Guild of Israel Study Circle 92 A Rogue Sentenced . . . 92 Social and Personal . . . 92

NOTANDA Lent’ s imminence. An appeal fo r prayers in a time o f peril (p. 69).

Cardinal Bourne. Welcome news o f a maintained improvement in the health o f His Eminence (p. 83).

St. Jeanne Thouret. The life and work o f a great religious foundress. Last Sunday’s Canonization in St. Peter’s (p. 81).

The new Premonstratensian Abbot o f Our Lady o f the Marsh (p. 86).

Much about the Nazis. A Tablet leader-writer reproduces a German account o f this “ new doctrine o f life ” (p. 69), and an English traveller describes a recent motor-journey through Nazidom (p. 71).

The lonely Seychelles swim into momentary limelight. An Anglican Archdeacon adds a mare’s nest to the long inventory o f Seychellois curiosities ( p . 6 6 ) .

Russian sweetmeats. A fuller description o f crystallized fruits from the U .S .S .R . (p. 68).

Is the Loch Ness monster a sea-hippopotamus? An Italian theory and a Tablet suggestion (p. 68).

Madame Arendrup. The story o f Wimbledon’s benefactress (p. 77).

NEWS AND NOTES T N this week’s issue o f The Tablet there is a great deal about the German Nazis; indeed, we are prepared to hear a few readers crying out that an ecclesiastical paper ought not to fill so many columns with foreign politics. Therefore we offer an explanation. In Catholic as well as in non-Catholic circles, propagandists are just now hard at work trying to gloss over the dangers to Peace which lie in the remilitarizing o f the German people. During the fourteen years o f Weimarism, earnest attempts were made to exorcise the war-spirit from New Series. Vol. CXXXI. No. 4288.

Young Germany; but to-day the Weimarites are branded as traitors to the Vaterland whose pacific ideology must be stamped out like a pestilence. It is The Tablet’s belief that an ostrich policy in Great Britain is the surest way o f bringing about W ar in Europe. W e are begged, nearly every week, by ladies and gentlemen with ostrich habits, to plead the cause o f a Germany which is said to have been unfairly treated, or even cheated, in the matter o f armaments. H ow could we honourably associate ourselves with such protests when we know, all the time, that Germany is re-armed already? General Bourgois, who made a long speech in the French Senate last Tuesday on this matter, is no hare-brained scare-monger. He showed, soberly and in detail, the vast and rapid progress made by the Third Reich in the restoration o f her old military establishments; and he did not fail to explain how completely Germany’s land and air forces are— or soon can be— equipped fo r the horrible business o f War. Catholic opinion still counts with Germany, as is proved by Llerr von Papen’s attempt, a few days ago, to answer the Austrian Bishops; so we regard it as our duty not to let a small minority delude Herr Hitler concerning Catholic opinion in England.

Belittlers o f Austria’s Catholic leaders would have the world believe that Chancellor Dollfuss and his colleagues resist Nazism only because they are afraid o f losing office and power. Such critics will perhaps explain to us why Germany’s other neighbours, as well as Austria, dislike and fear the Swastika so much. In Switzerland the impudent Nazi promise to “ liberate ” German-speaking Swiss by absorbing them into the Reich is deeply resented. In Belgium, the dread o f aggressive German militarism recently produced a national crisis. Poland and Czechoslovakia and Denmark all have frontiers which march with Germany’s; and all o f them are put to expense and anxiety through Nazism. A s fo r