September 1, 1934
THE TABLET
A W e ek 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 MANE ATI S
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 164. No. 4 9 2 1 .
L o n d o n , S e p t e m b e r i , 1934.
S i x p e n c e .
R eg is tered at the General P ost Off ic e as a New spaper.
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New s and No t e s ...................2 57 More Than Two Pins . . . 261 The Clapton Conclave . . . 262 The Muezzin of “ The Wire
less ”
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L isieux: Three Impressions 264 Back from Germany . . . 264 R e v ie w s : —
Blood-Money . . . . . . 265 Roma Locuta Est . . . 266 Herod’s Temple ................. 266 The Celtic Gospels . . . 268 Paradise Found ................. 268 The Miraculous Medal . . . 268
CONT
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New Books and Music . . . 269 Books Received ................. 270 Alexis Zerchaninov.......... 270 Mr. J. W. P o y n te r ..........271 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) .............................. 273 The Pilgrimage to Walsingh a m ................................ 274 E t Ce t e r a ...............................2 74 Sermons for the Times . . . 276 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ..................... 277
ENTS
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Malta’ s Day ............................277 Catholic Education Notes . . . 277 L e tters to the E d it o r : —
Our Lady of Walsingham 278 “ Gradually Catholicized ” 278 Marydown’s First Year . . . 278 “ The Pisa G ang” . . . 278 “ A Minister of Holidays” 278 Ch e s s .......................................... 279 Orbis T errarum :
England ............................ 279 Ireland ............................ 279 Austria ............................ 280 Basutoland............................280
Orb is Terrarum ( Oontd.) :
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Canada ............................ 280 France ............................ 280 Germany ............................ 280 Haiti 282 Italy 282 The Saar ............................ 282 Spain ............................ 282 Switzerland........................... 282 The Ex-Servicemen’s Pil
grimage ............................ 284 W i l l s ............................... 284 Coming E vents .................. 284 Obitu ary ............................ 284 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 284
NOTANDA The future o f Austria. A Tablet leader-writer examines the latest utterance o f Lord Rothermere’s organ (p. 261).
Ireland a Monarchy. Some extracts from a remarkable pamphlet (p. 258).
“ A t Ehren on the Rhine,” and at Sulzbach. Some Notes on two great meetings concerning the Saar (p. 257).
More muzzling o f German Catholics. The exile o f Father Muckermann, S.J. (p. 258).
The new refectory at St. David’s fo r the eating o f the Pasch. The full text o f the Archbishop o f Cardiff’s sermon at the opening o f the little church on the cliff (p. 276).
Salvationists and Papists. This week’s Conclave at Clapton (p. 262).
Death o f Ushaw’s President. A story o f sixtynine years’ uninterrupted association with the college (p. 284).
Continuing the account o f his recent pilgrimage to Lisieux, Father Benedict Williamson tells o f a visit to the shrine o f the Little Flower (p. 264).
NEWS AND NOTES A N anecdote o f the ’ nineties related the hard fate o f a Rossini-lover who asked at a musicshop for Moses in Egypt. He was told that this work was not stocked ; but he could have Ehren on the Rhine. For the sake o f younger readers, we explain that Ehren on the Rhine was a Victorian ballad with the refrain :
When War is o’er, We’ll part no more
At Ehren on the Rhine.
All this came back to our mind while we were reading the speech made b y Herr Hitler at Ehrenbreitstein. N ew S er ie s . Vol. CXXXII. No. 4320.
on-the-Rhine last Sunday. The leader serenaded France. In effect he sang :
What friends we’ll be When the Saar is free,
At Ehren on the Rhine !
Herr Hitler said that the Saar is the only grave question now outstanding between France and Germany. Once let the Saarlanders become incorporated in the Reich as 800,000 German citizens and there will be nothing to hinder Germany and France from living happily together as neighbours and from working usefully together as friends. But when the Man in the Street (or la rue) mutters uneasily that he is “ afraid there’s a catch in it somewhere,” we fear he is right. Ever since the Versailles Treaty was signed, German statesmen have been saying : “ Only give way on this one point and our grievances will be ended.” It was so with the successive reductions in Reparations ; with the Loans arranged under American management ; and with the evacuation o f the Ruhr. We are not saying that the Führer was consciously insincere last Sunday ; but we cannot blame Frenchmen for their unwillingness to believe that Berlin will turn a deaf ear to the young men who will soon be shouting out that the very names of Metz and Strasburg cry aloud for rescue.
When the 100,000 or so of Saarlanders who went to Coblenz returned home very late on Sunday night, or early on Monday morning, they heard surprising news from their neighbours. Before entraining for Germany they had heard something about a counter-demonstration to be held at Sulzbach, near Saarbrücken; but the affair had been minimized. Even the most sanguine o f its organizers— so the story ran— did not expect 40,000 demonstrators, in contrast with the 400,000 expected at Coblenz. But when the pro-Nazis dragged themselves home, dog-tired after five hours waiting for the Führer on the sun-smitten rock of Ehrenbreitstein, they heard that the Sulzbach gathering had
