June 16, 1934
THE TABLET s i 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 INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius I X to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 163. No. 4910.
London, June 16, 1934.
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N ew s and No t e s ................745 Six and Six Make Twelve 749 Consecration Crosses . . . 750 Cardinal Bourne’s Jubilee 751 R e v ie w s :
Archæology in Syria . . . 754 The Fulness that is in
Christ
. . . 755
La Montre de Paley . . . 755 Books Received . . . 756 New Books and Music . . . 756 Chess ................ . . . 757
CONTENTS
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The Letters of Hilarión 758 Coming E ve n t s ...................7 59 Correspondence:
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 761 E t Ce t e r a ............................... 763 L etters to th e E d it o r :
Altai’s “ Versus Populum ”
764
Sawley Abbey ................. 764 St. Yves ............................ 764 Humpty-Dumpty................. 764
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Catholic Education Notes . . . 765 Prize Day at Downside . . . 766 Ob it u a r y ............................. 766 W i l l .................................. 767 St. Bede’s College, Man
chester ........................... 767 The Church at Saltley . . . 768 The Augustinian Canonesses
Regular ........................... 768 Or b i s Terrarum :
England ........................... 768 Scotland ........................... 770 Ireland ........................... 770
Or b i s Terrarum ( Contd.) :
Australia
Belgium
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British East Africa . . . 770 China . . . 770 France . . . 770 Germany ... . . . 772 India . . . 772 Poland . . . 772 Spain . . . 772 U.S.A. . . . 772 So c ia l and P ersonal 772
NOTANDA Cardinal Bourne’s Golden Jubilee. The celebrations at Westminster and at St. Edmund’ s College. A Letter “ with a personal touch ” from the H oly Father. The clergy’s offering (pp. 751-754).
Consecration Crosses. An innovation or revival at Saltley (p. 750).
The Archbishop o f Cardiff’s approaching golden jubilee. An anniversary with a tw o fo ld interest (p. 763).
“ Hilarion ” describes the Catenian banquet and Mass at Southend-on-Sea (p. 758).
A new church in the Eternal C i t y : its strong features and its weak ones. A critical examination by The Tablet’s Rome Correspondent (p. 761).
The liqueur o f “ Fa Comp.” A n American paper’s illiterate calumny (p. 747).
Disorder at public meetings. A Tablet leaderwriter on the Blacks and the Reds at Olympia (p. 749).
Mr. Justice Hawke once more. H is lordship’ s misplaced leniency in a dreadful case (p. 746).
H ow Ebchester is to witness an aspect o f Catholic restoration after thirteen hundred years (p. 763).
NEWS AND NOTES \ X 7 ITH brimming gratitude to Almighty God,
* ’ we chronicle to-day the celebration of Cardinal Bourne’s Golden Jubilee. The illness of His Eminence had engendered a doubt as to his taking part in the Jubilee gatherings. Happily there has been such a large recovery of strength that last year’s fear has given place to a hope. W e mean the hope expressed by a I ablet leader-writer last week, that “ the Gold may be gemmed with the Diamond ” and that the ten years between the Jubilees may be years o f health and happiness for our venerated and beloved Chief. N ew S e r ie s . Vol. CXXXI. No. 4309.
Belgium’s political crisis has been solved, for the moment, by a reconstruction of the Ministry. As the numerical strength of the Cabinet has been increased by two Ministers without portfolios, it now counts fourteen members. Eight o f these are Catholics (including the Premier and the Ministers for Foreign Affairs, the Interior, Finance and Labour), while six (including the Minister for Education) are Liberals. As for the language difficulty, the Wallons and the Flamands are in equal strength. We wish M. de Broqueville good luck ; but we do so without strong trust in the stability o f his reconstruction. Happily M. Jaspar is still Foreign Minister.
Little did we hope, when we were writing our relevant Note a fortnight ago that Washington would quickly lend a friendly ear to proposals for a gradual liquidation of Great Britain’s debt to the U.S.A. by payments “ in kind.” On Tuesday afternoon, President Roosevelt’s Secretary of State handed to the British Ambassador in Washington a statement which does not accept the suggested payments in kind but does not reject them. W ithout committing itself, even in principle, to a bargain which would have to be submitted to Congress, the United States Government promises careful consideration to “ any proposals of this or a similar character which promise mutual benefit.” Here is an opportunity for our own statesmen. Most people in Great Britain wish to settle this country’s debt to the U.S.A. For years, the idea o f even the smallest default was revolting to the national sense o f self-respect. That there has been a change of temper is a fact which does credit to the political intelligence of our people. Default became a tolerable idea among us only when it could no longer be denied that our regular payments in gold were doing much more harm than good to the world’s finance and therefore to our American creditors themselves. The punctually paid instalments in full did technical right but real wrong to the U.S.A.
