Apri] 21, 1934
THE TABLET ¿4 Weekly Newspaper and Review
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INOEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 163. No. 4902.
London, April 21, 1934.
Sixpence.
R eg istered at t h i General P ost Of f ic e as a N iw s p a p e b .
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News and No t e s ................... 489 The Pope and the P re s s . . . 498 Monday is S t. George’s Day 494 A Jubilee a t Brom p ton . . . 495 Rev ie w s :
“ M iracu la Sine D octrin a ” 498 The Confidence T r ick . . . 498 A gainst Biophobia . . . 499 “ B i d d y ” the G reat . . . 500 “ God Alone ” 500 Books Received ................... 500 New Books an d Music . . . 501 S ix teenth - C en tu ry Com
m unism ............................... 502
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Catholic E ducation Notes . . . 502 C ard in a l B ou rn e a t Folke
stone
“ Abbey and Allied Securi
503
ties, L td .” ....................... 503 Pontifical C ourt Club . . . 503 Correspondence :
Rome (O u r Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) ................................5 05 C.T.S. and its W o rk . . . 506 Golden Jubilee of the
O ra to ry ................................5 07 Coming E v ents ................... 507
ENTS
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Et CfETERA..................508 The G rail Goes O n .......... 509 Obituary ............................... 510 F rom The Tablet of N inety
Y ears A g o ....................... 510 Letters to th e E d i t o r :
F a th e r Bede J a r r e t t , O.P. 510 Runnymede and Romance 510 “ The Nazi a t Close Q uar
te rs ”
510
S to nyhurst Church . . . 511 Catholic L ib ra r ia n s . . . 511 The Catenian In te r - P ro v in
cial D in ner ................... 511
Orb i s Terr arum:
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England ......................... . 512 Scotland ......................... . 512 I re la nd ......................... . 514 F ran ce ......................... . 514 M adagascar . 514 P o la nd ......................... . 514 Spain ......................... . 514 U .S .A ....................................... . 516 Dorn H ila ry Willson s
Jubilee ......................... . 516 Social and P ersonal . . 516 Ch e ss ..................................... . 516
NOTANDA How the representatives of 5,000 newspapers throughout the world were received and blessed by the Sovereign Pontiff (pp. 493, 505).
St. George’s Day. A reminder for next Monday’s recurrence of “ All England’s Patronal Feast ” (p. 494).
The golden jubilee of the Oratory church at South Kensington. A triduum of thanksgiving. The interior design for the church, illustrated from Herbert Gribble’s drawings (pp. 495-7, 507).
Sauce for both goose and gander. Why it is necessary to class Soviet Russia as well as Nazi Germany among the dangers to Peace (p. 490).
The Earl of Iddesleigh’s question to General Higgins. Will the anti-militarist Salvation Army de-militarize its organization and vocabulary? (p. 489).
Elizabeth Barton, the “ Holy Maid of Kent.” Some notes for her fourth centenary (p. 508).
C.T.S. Facts and figures in proof of another year of progressive work. The Society and the film : an interesting development (p. 506).
“ Rodeo.” Parliament’s unanimity against a proposed revival of cruelty and cowardice (p. 491).
NEWS AND NOTES A FRANK Note from the French to the British Government has brought Disarmament down from the clouds with a rude bump. Paris bluntly tells London th a t Berlin is insincere. The Nazis have not only increased their military and naval budgets by £27,000,000 in the very middle of the peace-talks, but are calmly ignoring a crucial condition insisted upon by France and other Powers : namely, that Germany shall come back into the League of Nations. Sic fatur lacrymans Lutetia ; and we have no patience with those Britons who reply that hers are crocodile’s tears. Twice invaded
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within living memory, France has reason on her side when she says, in her latest Note, that “ her will to peace must not be mistaken for the abandonment of her defence.”
Those of us who, in a keen desire to help mankind, soberly regulate our idealism by practical politics, ought to be grateful to the Earl of Iddesleigh for a letter which he contributed to last Monday’s Times. Here it is :
May I invite General Higgins to remove the ambiguity which lies in the concluding sentence of his letter in to-day’s issue of “ The Times " ?
He writes, “ I am convinced, too, that it is in the power of the Christian Churches of this land to make another war in which our country would be a participant impossible.” Does he mean “ it is in the power of the Christian Churches of this land to make it impossible for our country or for any ally or dependency of our country ever again to be a victim of aggression," or does he mean “ it is in the power of the Christian Churches of this land to make it impossible for our country to be a participant in any war, although that war may have been caused by an act of aggression committed against our country or against an ally or dependency of our country ” ?
When speaking of war, " impossible ” is as rash a word as “ inevitable.” Up to the time of our writing this Note, General Higgins (chief of the Salvation Army) has not answered Lord Iddesleigh. We hope that a precise reply will be pressed for until it is obtained. Surely it is too bad for vague-minded religious “ leaders ” in this country to take credit for the highest and finest idealism, thus leaving the practical workers for Peace to be regarded as ignoble persons, callous towards bloodshed and all the sufferings of war.
In General Higgins’ case this facile and unpractical Pacifism is doubly dislikeable. The Salvation Army, with its banners, brass bands, uniforms and badges, its colonels, adjutants, captains, ensigns and so on, has exploited the military tradition and nomenclature to the utmost limit : yet its
