August 18, 1931

THE TABLET y l W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ET1AM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.

Vol. 164. No. 4919. London, August 18, 1934.

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R eg is tered at tile General P o st Off ic e as a New s pape r .

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New s and No t e s ................. 193 Walsingham’s Lady . . . 197 The League’s Temptation . . . 198 24.00 198 The “ Slipper Chapel” . . . 199 The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham ................. 200 The Eagle and the Mole . . . 203 St. Francis’ Home, Shefford 203 R e v ie w s :

Norfolk’s Nazareth . . . 203 “ Sligs ” 204 Money ............................ 204 La Grande Chartreuse . . . 205 To What ? 205 An Anglican Scholastic 205

CONTENTS

Books Received ................. 205 New Books and Music . . . 206 The State: Its Function and Its Limits ..............206 Westminster Cathedral: The

Enlarged P u l p i t ................. 207 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

Page spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) .............................. 209 E t Ce t e r a .............................. 211 Catholic Education Notes . . . 212 The Catholic Workers’ Col­

lege ....................................... 212 New Abbot of Ramsgate . . . 212

L etters to the Ed i t o r :

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The League of Nations 213 Some Jottings from Germany ............................ 213 Anglican Indelicacy . . . 213 The Amazing Marriage . . . 213 The Irish G i a n t ......... 214 From The Tablet of Ninety

Years A g o .................... 214 A Pilgrimage of Peace . . . 214 Or b is T errarum :

England ............................ 215 Scotland ............................ 215 Wales ............................ 216 Ireland ............................ 216 Austria ............................ 216

Or b is T errarum ( Contd.) :

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Belgium ........................ 216 China ........................ 216 France ........................ 218 Germany ........................ 218 India ........................ 218 Luxembourg ................2 18 Mexico ........................ 218 Poland ........................ 218 Spain ........................ 218 The Order of St. Gregory the Great . . ........................ 218 The S .V .P . at Bristol . . . 220 Obitu ary ........................ 220 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 220 Ch e s s .............. ........................ 220

NOTANDA

A fte r four hundred years. Tom orrow ’ s National Pilgrimage to Walsingham (pp. 193, 197). The story o f the glory and o f the ruin o f the famous shrine retold (pp. 200-203). Restoration. A picture o f the “ Slipper Chapel” (p. 109).

Evil films. Representatives o f the Cinema Press hear plain words from the H o ly Father, who asks a question and points a duty (p. 210).

The Peril o f the League o f Nations. A Tablet leader-writer on Russia’s expected application fo r membership (p. 198).

A Veterans’ Pilgrimage to Lourdes. An important letter from the Archbishop o f Birmingham (p. 214).

The Amazing Marriage. Dr. Winnington Ingram’s bewildering defence. Minnesota Divorces (pp. 195, 213).

The functions and limits o f the State. A digest o f Father Lewis W att’s lectures at the C.S.G. Summer School (p. 206).

Father Stone o f Stonyhurst. A centenary note (p. 211).

NEWS AND NOTES A LTHOUGH there is much in it for readers of other religions or none, to-day’s issue of The Tablet has been, to a greater extent than usual, written primarily for Catholics. To members of England’s old Church this is a time o f great joy. After a break o f four hundred years, the faithful, led b y the venerated praeses o f the Hierarchy in this land and by many o f his episcopal brethren, will go to-morrow as pilgrims to Our Lady of Walsingham, whose shrine was once a glory of all Christendom and not o f East Anglia or All Anglia alone. Blessings will be invoked upon the New Series. Vol. CXXXII. No. 4318.

head o f the zealous Bishop of Northampton, to whom the Catholics o f every diocese owe this revival of the ancient pilgrimage. And not the least element in our thanksgiving will be the presence at Norwich and Walsingham o f the Cardinal Archbishop. Last Wednesday, His Eminence spoke from the pulpit o f Westminster Cathedral for the first time in two y ea rs ; and his closing words were words o f deep devotion to Walsingham’s Lady. Following as it does hard upon the opening of a Catholic church at St. David’s in Westernmost Wales, this pilgrimage to a famous shrine in Easternmost England enables us to transfigure a sinister phrase of the Communist Trotsky’s and to envisage a Britain Catholic “ at both ends.”

From the hand of Herr von Papen, Herr Hitler has received Marshal von Hindenburg’s Last Testament. Begun in 1919 and finished in this present year of woe, the document concludes with a Nunc dimittis and an abdication. An old and weary man says in e f fe c t : “ The Fatherland’s paramount need is Conscious Unity, and my last days are tranquillized by the belief that it is attaining such Unity under ‘ My Chancellor,’ Adolf Hitler.” In other words, the tired-out President found consolation in contemplating Totalitarianism. He himself had enjoyed such Totalitarian favour in Germany, ever since the Tannenberg triumph, that his very name was a Hindenburg Line. But Totalitarian Hitlerism will be a flimsier bulwark than Totalitarian Hindenburgism ; because Herr Hitler has failed, after a year and a half of opportunity, to reveal the qualities which lead on and up to the status o f a Grand Old Man.

I f Herr Hitler and his henchmen are as confident as they pretend to be of Germany’s continued trust in the actual Reichsfiihrer, why are they spending the days as well as the evenings o f a whole week broadcasting vehement appeals to vote “ Yes ” to-morrow ? From a Swiss observer who travels much in Germany we hear that what the Nazi