October 13, 1934

THE TABLET N W eekly N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w

DUM V O B IS GRATULAMUR ANIM OS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT I N INCCEPTIS V E S T R I S CONSTANTER MANEATIS

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

V ol. 164. No. 4927. L ondon, October 13 , 1934.

S ix p en c e .

R e g is t e r e d at t h e General P o s t Of f ic e as a New s p a p e r .

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New s and No t e s ................... 449 A Warning from Mar­

seilles ............................. 453 An Emergency at Southport 453 “ Pirates in the Tumult ” 455 The Catholic Relief Com­

mittee for Russia . . . 455 Com in g E v e n t s ................... 455 A Famous East Anglian

Relic

R e v ie w s :

456

The Henrician Church . . . 457 The Glory that was Greece 458 Ximenes de Cisneros . . . 459 Father Bede Jarrett’s

“ Salve ” .............................4 59

CONTENTS

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The Church in Wales . . . 460 A B e s t ia r y .............................460 Atomic Physics ................. 462 Monsieur Vincent . . . 464 An Irishman on Hitler . . . 464 The Historian Belloc . . . 466 The King’s Forest . . . 466 L a n s b u r ia .............................468 A Poet of France . . . 468 Books Received ................. 468 New Books and Music . . . 469 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) .......................... 471 Buenos Aires .............. 473

London Matriculation

Results .......................... 473 I Mission Sunday ............... 473 1 Catholic Education Notes . . . 475 The Notre Dame Associa­

tions ........................................ 475 E t Ce t e r a ............................... 476 L e t t e r s to t h e E d i t o r :

Buckfast A b b e y ................. 477 “ Ubi Caritas ” Again . . . 477 The New Architecture . . . 478 Mussolini and Hitler . . . 478 Panem et Circenses . . . 478 The Lingard Society . . . 479 Ob it uary . . . 479 Yugoslavia’s Late King . . . 480

Or b i s Terrarum :

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England .............................480 Scotland .............................481 Wales .............................481 Ireland .............................481 Austria ........................ 482 France .............................482 The S a a r .............................482 Spain .............................482 Switzerland ................. 484 From The Tablet of Ninety

Years A g o .............................484 The Catholic Directory . . . 484 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 484 Ch e s s ........................................ 484

NOTANDA The murdered King of Yugoslavia. His friendships with Catholic prelates and his respect for steadfastness (pp. 453, 480).

Britain and Spain. A strange “ Emergency Resolution ” at the Labour Conference. Insolence in the News-Chronicle (pp. 453, 455).

Buenos Aires. The arrival of the Cardinal Legate for this week’s great gathering in the Argentine city (p. 473).

The work, and the needs, 'of the Foreign Missions. Archbishop Salotti’s appeal to the Catholic world in view of Mission Sunday (p. 473).

“ Almost unbelievable.” How a Cunarder’s captain cancelled divine service in deference to a Soviet pilot (p. 452).

More about the Lourdes Pilgrimage of Peace. The great influence of the small British contingent (p. 449).

Is it the Rood of Bronholm? Some interesting speculations as to a relic now treasured at York (p. 456).

Secession stories again. An experiment at Essen and some wild statistics from Sheffield (p. 450).

An enlarged issue of The Tablet makes room for reviews of many new books (pp. 457-469).

NEWS AND NOTES TT was as a schoolboy in an English school th a t * Peter the Second, King of the Serbs, the Croats and the Slovenes, lived the first day and night of his reign. The lad, not yet in his ’teens, was not immediately informed of the dreadful deed which had deprived Yugoslavia of a wise Ruler and himself of a loving father. Regents will govern the Triple Kingdom until the new monarch comes of age ; but during th a t time Englishmen will not forget

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him as one who was for a brief while almost one of their own. Nor will Italy, we feel sure, lack magnanimity towards a rival State on whom so cruel a blow has fallen.

Much is said by The Tablet's leader-writers this week about the abortive insurrection in Spain ; because there is already a tendency among Britons to judge with criminal leniency the men who so airily caused blood to flow. And, according to two responsible newspapers, The Times and the Daily Telegraph, simple bloodshed was not the worst of the rebels’ doings. The Times reports th a t the parish priest of Navas, after his church had been burned, was shot dead and his body dragged through the streets ; while the Telegraph adds th a t another priest was drenched with petrol and burnt to death. If any readers fear th a t we are too hard on the News Chronicle’s preposterous article, we must remind them how th a t same newspaper lately expressed satisfaction th a t the Vienna Socialists are again obtaining arms and ammunition. To us, it is indecent th a t persons in England who deny th a t there could ever be a Just War nevertheless clap their hands over Unjust Rebellion whenever it is a rising of atheists against Christians.

Now th a t the ex-service men who took part in the Lourdes Pilgrimage of Peace are back among us and are a t leisure to talk about their memorable journey, we are more than ever convinced th a t the mighty gathering on the banks of the Gave was an event of inestimable value. I t has not been generally understood th a t a large percentage of the sixty or seventy thousand old soldiers who took part in the Pilgrimage were men who had grown slack in the practice of their religion. Indeed, some of them had not received Holy Communion since the ending of the Great War. The Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes became aware of this f a c t ; and, in his address to the men, he made it plain th a t there were ample arrangements for hearing the confessions of