October 27, 1934

THE TABLET y l Weekly Newspaper and Review

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

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

V ol. 164. No. 4929. L o n don , October 27, 1934.

S ix p e n c e .

R eg ist ered at the General P ort Of f ic e as a New spa per .

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News and No t e s ................... 521 C h ris tu s R e x : The H e ro

C h ris t ................................52 5 Allies of Anti-God . . . 527 “ Animals’ Year ” ................... 527 The P ro nunciation of L a tin 528 The Catholic Relief Com­

mittee fo r R u ss ia . . . 530 R e v ie w s :

C h ris tu s V i c t o r ................... 531 A P lea for Leadership . . . 532 F rom the Office W indow 532

CONTENTS

R e v ie w s ( Contd.).

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C u t Flowers ................... 532 “ P . L .” 533 A H und re d Y ears Ago . . . 533 New Books and Music . . . 533 Catholic E ducation Notes . . . 534 Catholic Action by D ram a ­

tic Societies ................... 534 Coming E vents ................ 534 Ch e s s ............................................ 535 Correspondence :

Rome (O u r Own C o rre ­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) ............................... 537

M. Poincare. The Requiem

Page a t W estm inster ................ 539 The Servite Chapter 539 Obituary ............................ 539 Abbot Cabrol Honoured . . . 541 E t Ca s t e r a ............................ 542 F rom The Tablet of Ninety

Y ears A g o ............................ 543 W i l l s ............................ 543 Sowerby B ridge ................ 544 Orb is Terrarum :

England ............................ 544 Scotland ............................ 545

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Orb is Teeearum {Contd.) : Wales ................................54 6

I r e la n d ................................54 6 A u s tria ............................... 546 Belgium ............................... 546 F ran ce ............................... 546 Germany ................................5 48 I n d ia 548 M anchukuo ................... 548 Senegal ............................... 548 Spain ............................... 548 Ü .S .A ............................................ 548 1 Social and P ersonal . . . 548

NOTANDA

Portugal’s happy state. Dr. Salazar re-forms and reinforces his Cabinet (p. 521).

Mexico’s Reds renew their threat of persecution. A Tablet leader-writer’s challenge to the Low Anglican “ Allies of Anti-God ” (p. 527).

To-morrow’s Feast of Christus Rex. Its call for Victorism (p. 525). The Abbot of Buckfast’s timely book (p. 531).

More money for starving priests and nuns in Russia. The Tablet’s collection rises to upwards of £300 (p. 530).

The pronunciation of Latin. A thesis by a recent writer on the subject is examined at length, and refuted (p. 528).

“ Animals’ Year.” Support for a new project of the R.S.P.C.A. (p. 527).

The Saar plebiscite. A dark threat from Kaiserslautern. The imperative need for a correct electoral register (p. 522).

The past week’s heavy obituary. Many losses from the ranks of the priesthood (p. 539).

NEWS AND NOTES A LTHOUGH every British journalist knows how to mention Portugal as “ England’s oldest Ally,” scant attention is paid by our Press to Portuguese affairs. Yet they are more interesting, as well as more important to Britain, than many of the crises and rumours in other States which receive punctilious attention from British publicists. During the early part of this week, there was a Cabinet reconstruction in Lisbon which was worth understanding ; but it received little notice in London. Happily, the ministerial changes appear to be for the better. That brilliant and strong statesman and Catholic, Dr. Salazar, remains in office as Prime 1

Minister, with the unstinted confidence of President Carmona, and of practically all the Portuguese people save the small cliques of disgruntled politicians who have so often brought ruin upon Lusitania’s precarious fortunes. Under the new Constitution, there will shortly be elections in Portugal, on a novel basis which we shall fully describe in due course.

From the Suffolk village named Mildenhall to the great antipodean city of Melbourne is nearly 12,000 miles, as the ’plane flies. The long trip, equal to half the circumference of the globe, has just been made by two British airmen, Messrs. Scott and Black, in three days. Flying in conditions of terrible strain, these gallant men could not take turns at sleep but were almost all the time at the the fullest stretch of their nerves and wits. The chief significance of their feat is not that Englishmen have beaten the brave sons of other nations in a race. What matters most is th a t the possibilities of aviation have been demonstrated more brilliantly than ever before. What airmen do to-day in dare-devil rivalry will be done to-morrow as part of the routine of civilization. We do not say that passengers with business to transact in Australasia will sit in an aeroplane for three days on end. Although the wonderful Dutch aeroplane piloted by Messrs. Parmentier and Moll in the Melbourne race carried passengers who took baths and ate hot meals during their flight, we expect that the long-distance aviation of the near future will consist of day-flights averaging about 2,000 miles each, with landings at suitable places where the night can be spent comfortably and unanxiously; but perhaps we are timorous and shortsighted in this opinion. In any case, however, the conditions of human life are quickly changing. To take a Catholic illustration, no more will the mere factor of distance keep a Cardinal away from a Conclave. In civilian life, there will be less and less scope for the type of magistrate or District officer who did so much to build up our Empire by prudent initiative in remote

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