.November lo, 1934

THE TABLET u 4 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 ETIAM ADDIHUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S T R IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

From the B r ief o f H is Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.

V o l . 164. No. 4931. L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r i o , 1934.

S i x p e n c e .

R egistered at the General P ost Office as a Newspaper.

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News and No t e s ................. 585 The Long, Long Armistice 589 A Counsel for Some Coun­

sellors ............................ 589 “ Dear Ivensit ” 590 On Tour for the C.T.S. . . . 591 The Pilgrimage of Peace . . . 593 Review s : —

Cardinal Gasparri’s Cate­

chism ............................ 593 Ras Shamra............................ 593 Marlborough ................. 594 “ Pippo Buono ” ................. 595 Newman in a New Light 595

CONTENTS

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Books Received ................. 596 New Books and Music . . . 596 The Catholic Truth Society’s

Golden Jubilee ................. 597 The Catholic Relief Committee for R u s s ia ................. 599 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 601 Film Censorship ................. 602 E t Ctetera ............................ 603 Obituary ............................ 604

Farm Training: The

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National Scheme . . . 604 St. Hubert’s, Oldbury ... 605 A Career for G i r l s ................. 605 Coming Events ................. 605 Catholic Education Notes 606 From The Tablet of Long

Ago ....................................... 606 Ch e s s ....................................... 607 Letters to the Ed it o r :

Schoolrooms as Election Meeting-places ................. 608 Sir Oswald Mosley . . . 608 Jews in B r i t a i n ................. 608 “ Animals’ T e a r ” . . . 608

Orbis Terr arum :

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England ............................ 609 Ireland . . . .............. 610 Austria ............................ 610 Canada ............................ 610 Central Africa ................. 610 China .............. . . . 610 France ............................ 610 Italy 612 Korea ............................ 612 R o u m a n ia ............................ 612 Spain ............................ 612 Social and P ersonal . . . 612

NOTANDA

Armistice Day. A Tablet leader-writer on the difference between Armistice and Peace (p. 589).

Royalty and the non-Anglican denominations. Respectful advice to the Crown’s advisers (p. 589).

“ Dear Kensit.” The Protestant Bishop o f London and the Protestant Truth Society (p. 590).

Last week’s Municipal Elections. The need for less o f Indirect and more o f Direct Taxation (p. 586).

An overdue Citizenship Bill in the Irish Free State. Its defects (p. 585).

The Catholic Truth Society’s golden jubilee. Celebrations in London and in the provinces (p. 597). The Society’ s first Organizing Secretary writes o f his experiences in the field (p. 591).

Another striking new Catholic church in the Midlands. St. Hubert’s, Oldbury : a description and an illustration (p. 605).

Marlborough. Mr. Winston Churchill’s second volume on the great Duke examined and appraised (p. 594).

Clean Films. A call from Cardiff’ s Board o f Catholic Action (p. 602).

NEWS AND NOTES TJRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has received from his fellow-countrymen a renewal of his mandate so emphatic that if he proceeded to act almost as a Dictator it would not be fair to call him a usurper. He is not, however, to be envied. Almost boundless confidence in a Dux is a synonym for Great Expectations. Millions of North Americans. having given Franklin Roosevelt a blank cheque upon the national assets and credit, are now hoping that he will fill it up for a stupendous amount and will share out the cash all round. The Army Veterans, for instance, are eager to take hundreds

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o f millions of dollars. Moreover, the Democrat successes in both Houses of Congress may block the President’s path rather than clear it. Cynics are already saying that “ What will Mr. Roosevelt do with his majority ? ” is a less practical question than “ What will his majority do with Mr. Roosevelt ? ” In any event, we wish Mr. President well.

No complaint can justly be made against the Government of the Irish Free State for introducing a Citizenship Bill. Legislation in this connection is urgent. It may astonish Englishmen to learn that no child born in Ireland during the fourteen years last past is a Free State citizen ; for the simple reason that, under the Saorstat Constitution, nobody is a citizen save those Irish men and women who were already domiciled somewhere in the Twenty-six Counties on December 6, 1922. Fervid adults of pure Irish blood who have returned to Erin from Great Britain or Australia or the U.S.A., since 1922 are not citizens. Other surprising anomalies might be mentioned ; but we have said enough to prove that a Citizenship Bill is overdue in the Saorstat. This does not necessarily mean, however, that the measure drafted by or for President de Valera’s Ministry is a good one. On the contrary, it is like the Archdeacon’s Egg. Parts of it are quite bad. Take, for example, the naturalization clause. To secure naturalization in England, an alien must have acquired a working knowledge of the English language. No such condition is laid down in the new Free State Bill. I f it becomes law, unamended, a foreigner who has lived for five years or more in Ireland, keeping to his own clique and never learning a word of Irish or English, will be able to become both citizen and voter. The Bill appears to be also rather provocatively one-sided as regards the British Commonwealth.

Sweeping gains of seats— in some cases, of whole Councils— b y the Labour Party at last week’s