February 24, 1934.
THE TABLET
N . W e e k ly 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 INCŒPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Floliness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 163. No. 4894. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 24, 1934.
S i x p e n c e .
R eg is tered at t h i General P ost Off ic e as a N ew spaper.
New s and Notes
Page . . . 225
Every Inch a King . . . 229 A Clear Issue . . . 229 Notes for Musicians 230 Welsh Cathedrals: St.
David’s .............. . . . 231 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 233 Books Received ................. 233 R e v i e w s :
The Undiscovered Country 234 The Church and War . . . 234 Non-Christian ................. 235
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R e v i e w s (Contd.)
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No, Dr. Sheppard! . 236 Ecce, Ancilla Marise . 236 New Books and Music .. . 237 Catholic Education Notes .. . 238 Ob it u ary .......................... . 238 W i l l s .......................... Correspondence : . 239
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 241 The Late King Albert . . . 242 Monsignor Provost Freeland 242
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L enten P astorals :
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Cardiff ............................ 243 Hexham and Newcastle 244 Coming E vents ...................2 46 “ The Future of the Catholic
Press ”
246
L etters to th e E d i t o r :
England and France . . . 246 The Venerabile ................. 246 Don B o s c o .................... 246 Slippery F l o o r s ......... 246 The Forerunner ................. 247 An Organ Wanted . . . 247
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Tristan da C u n h a ................. 247 Et Ce t e r a ............................ 248 0 rb 1s Terrarum :
England ............................ 249 Ireland ............................ 250 Austria ............................ 250 France ............................ 250 Liberia ............................ 250 Rhodesia ............................ 250 Spain ............................ 251 U.S.A....................................... 252 Social and P ersonal . . . 252 Chess 252
NOTANDA Death dethrones a Catholic King whom an Emperor could not overthrow (p. 229).
Unfairness to Austria. H ow the familiar methods o f anti-Catholic journalists have been applied to the Dollfuss Government (p. 229).
St. David’s and “ Dewisland.” A timely description o f Britain’s westernmost Cathedral and its wild surroundings (p. 231).
Anglo-Russian trade. A Note on the new “ Temporary Agreement ” (p. 227).
Tristan da Cunha. Mrs. Rogers acknowledges “ enough rosaries, medals and books to last fo r ten years ” (p. 247).
“ 11,000,000 converts” from Communism and Socialism to Hitlerism. A boast demanding neoUrsuline criticism (p. 226).
Catholic Action. The Archbishop o f Cardiff establishes a Board fo r that diocese (p. 243). Three progressive societies are named by the Bishop among resources in the Diocese o f Hexham and Newcastle (p. 245).
NEWS AND NOTES T ED by men who are hungry for Power through *~J Revolution, not hungry for food, some thousands o f falsely-named “ Hunger Marchers ” are converging upon London and are proposing to hold a meeting in Hyde Park to-morrow, Sunday. We advise good citizens who are not members of the ordinary or special police-forces to keep away from the gathering. It is within our knowledge that mischief is hoped for, and that sympathizers with the Reds have decided in advance to blame “ police provocation ” for any trouble which may arise. The smaller the street and park crowds, the easier will be the task o f law's and order’s guardians.
New Series. Vol. CXXXI. No. 4293.
Mr. John Eppstein will speak in the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, next Thursday evening, on “ The Papacy and International Justice.” The chairman is to be the Rt. Rev. Dr. Myers, Bishop o f Lamus. This will be one o f five lectures organized by the League o f Nations Union under the general title o f “ Problems o f the League.” The proceedings are to begin at half past seven, and admission will be free except to the few front seats. A fte r Mr. Eppstein and the Bishop have spoken, time will remain fo r questions and a discussion. W e beg London Catholics to back up by their presence a Catholic chairman and a Catholic lecturer on a subject which is imperfectly understood.
Herr Hitler received a representative o f the London Daily Mail on Friday o f last week and made what the Editor o f that newspaper calls “ a statement of momentous importance.” After reading the Chancellor’s words carefully we cannot agree with the M a il’s appraisement. The Fiihrer declared Germany’s m ood and policy to be pacific ; which is what he has been saying for a year. Most o f his remarks were undignified and unjust attacks upon Dr. Dollfuss, the Head of a Government which Germans have largely wronged. Herr Hitler (and also Dr. Goebbels, his Minister for Propaganda) spoke with the utmost contempt o f Dr. Dollfuss, because militant Marxism in Vienna and other Austrian towns has not been defeated without heavy fighting. The two Nazi leaders scornfully compared the bloodlessness o f their own seizure o f power with the sanguinary days in Austria, and drew the moral that Herr Hitler and his followers must be better men than the Austrian Chancellor and those who support him.
There are many answers to Herr Hitler’s loud boast that, although there were 13,000,000 Communists and Marxian Socialists in the R e i c h many of them possessed of arms and ammunition in large quantities— there was no resistance at all to the change o f regime. At the risk o f hurting
