January 12, 1935
THE TABLET y i Weekly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v ie w
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.
Vol. 165. No. 4940.
London, January 12, 1935.
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News and Notes
Page . . . 33
To-morrow on the Saar ... 37 The Independence of Austria 37 “ Tell Me, Where Dwells
Charity? ” *„.38 Cardinal Bourne’s Obsequies 39 Some Personal Impressions 42 Letter from the Vicar
Capitular ........................... 43 The Bishop of Leeds ... 43 Coming Events ................. 43
CONTENTS
R ev iew s :
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Le Curé D’Ars ................ 43 St. Joseph ........................... 43 Charles the G r e a t ................ 44 Who Runs May Read ... 45 Pre-Moslem I n d i a ................ 45 Books Received ................ 46 New Books and Music . . . 46 Sermons for the Times . . . 47 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ........................... 49
From The Tablet of Long
Ago E t Castera ............... The Teachers’ Conference Obituary .............. L etters to the E ditor
Blessed Thomas More The Allies’ War-Debts Or b is Terrarum:
England .............. Ireland .............. Australasia .............. **' Burma ..............
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50 51 52 53 54 54 .. 54 .. 55 .. 56 .. 56
Orb is Terrabum {Oontd.) :
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China*...................................... 56 France ......................... 56 Germany .........................58 I n d i a ...................................... 58 M a n c hukuo........................... 58 Oceania .........................58 Portugal ......................... 58 The Saar . .. 58 South Africa ................ 58 S p a i n ...................................... 58 Social and P ersonal . .. 60 Chess . . . 60
NOTANDA The fourth Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster’s impressive obsequies. The Pontifical Mass of Requiem in the Cathedral and the inhumation at St. Edmund’s College. A Letter from the Vicar-Capitular (pp. 39-43).
Viscount FitzAlan o f Derwent’s homely broadcast. His personal recollections o f the late Cardinal (p. 42),
To-morrow’s plebiscite in the Saar Territory. An eleventh-hour comment (pp. 33, 37).
The Independence of Austria. A Tablet leaderw riter gives reasons for rejecting the advice o f the Daily Mail (p. 37).
“ The Fascist authorities ” and Catholic Schools. A belated statement in the Blackshirt (p. 34).
Catholic teachers in conference. The Federation’s twenty-second gathering reaffirms the claim to ju s t financial treatment for our schools (p. 52).
Where goslings are swans. Lord Cecil’s magnification of the Peace Ballot (p. 34).
Tshekedi Khama once more. His appeal, in good English, against absorption into the Union of South Africa (p. 34). .
NEWS AND NOTES YTiTHILE the secular newspapers are duly pur
’ ’ veying political news from th e Saar, this Catholic weekly will be expected to say something about its co-religionists’ doings in the Territory. Let us comment, therefore, on the protest which th e President of the Plebiscite Commission has addressed to the Bishops of Trier and Speyer, the two Ordinaries in whose dioceses the Territory lies. First, the Commission is angry with certain curés doyens (oddly called “ the deacons ” in The Times) who have incautiously signed a document
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with a strong Hitlerite bias. But we are in a position to confirm the statem ent made in our “ Orbis Terrarum ” pages this week. Some of the parish-priests in question roundly declare th a t their signatures were obtained by trickery and th a t what they signed was not the manifesto which has been published.
Continuing, the President of the Commission rebukes Their Excellencies of Trier and Speyer on account of the episcopal call to prayers " f o r a happy result ” of the plebiscite which was made a t Christmas. But the happiest result of all might be a knock-down blow to Nazi hopes. The Bishops in ordinary German dioceses cannot be blamed if they have asked prayers for the return of the Territory to Germany ; just as our English Bishops could not be blamed when they prayed for the Allies’ victory in the Great War. We grant th a t the two German dioceses of Trier and Speyer are exceptionally conditioned just now ; but the Bishops oh those Sees have warned the Saar clergy to remain punctiliously neutral till the vote has been taken. Indeed, when the Plebiscite President sends a scolding to Trier about the prayers which may or may not be prayed, he risks making himself ridiculous. Perhaps he has never heard how Napoleon solemnly announced th a t the Holy Coat of Trier could be exposed to veneration but th a t the Coat was “ strictly forbidden to work miracles.”
So often is the word “ academic ” used in a disparaging sense th a t Academies, our own Royal Academy not excepted, have come to be regarded as institutions in which the classical Past is treated with wistful awe while the Present and the Future aré little esteemed. Speaking broadly, it is right and proper th a t Academies should be classical in a large and sane sense of the word. At Burlington House the Winter Exhibitions of masterpieces surviving from great epochs of Flemish and Italian and Persian and French and other cultures have done fine work for contemporary a r t in Great Britain. But our
