February 2, 1935
A 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 ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 165. No. 4943.
London, F ebruary 2, 1935.
Sixpence.
R eg is teeed a t th e General P o st Op t i c s a s a Nbw s p a p i b .
Page
New s and No t e s ...................129 Simon v. Bond ................. 133 Spanish Salt . . . . . . . . . 133 Moscow and the Eastern
Pact .............. ... 135 Shepherds Pet Wolves . . . 135 R e v i e w s :
New Facets of Thomism 137 Henri Gheon’s Love
Affair ............................ 137 The Corsican Ogre . .. 138 Prince Charlie . . . . . . 138 New Books and Music . . . 139 Books Received ................. 139
CONTENTS
Page
Cardinal Bourne ................. 140 Ob it u a r y ............................... 140 The Great Triduum at
Lourdes ............................ 141 Catholic Education’s
Double Loss . . . . . . 142 Father Hudson’s Homes . . . 143 The Cambridge Summer
School ............................ 143 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 145
W i l l s
Rage . 147
From The Tablet of Long
Ago . . . ••• . . . 147 E t Ce t e r a . . ................... 148 Birmingham Catholic Re
union ............................ 149 L e tters to the E d i t o r :
Latin Pronunciation . . . 150 The Peace B a l lo t ......... 151 The Catholic Education
Council ............................ 151 SeDties in Die ................. 151
Or b is T errarum : Page
England ............................ 152 Scotland ............................ 152 Ireland ............................ 152 Barbados 154 Belgian Congo ................. 154 France . . . 154 India . . . ' ........... 154 Morocco .............. . . . 154 Peru ............................ 154 f -umania ............................ 154 he Saar ............................ 154 Spain ............................ 154 Switzerland 156 Coming Events . . . . . . 156 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 156 Ch e s s ............................ . . . 156
NOTANDA
The April Triduum at Lourdes. The H o ly Father’s Letter (p. 141).
Catholic Schools falling behind. Plain speaking by the Archbishop o f Birmingham (p. 149).
’ Slanders and libels. Recent action by Sir John Simon prompts a Tablet suggestion (p. 133).
The Independence o f Austria. Dr. Gilbert Murray’s preference fo r a non-Catholic guarantee (p. 131).
“ The Victims o f Fascism.” A hypocritical Muscophil move, with three Anglican Bishops in support (p. 135). _
“ One o f my earliest and most beautiful memories is associated with him.” A n Anglican clergyman’ s letter o f homage to the memory o f Cardinal Bourne (p. 140).
M. Henri Gheon’s “ Wanderings with Mozart ” (p. 137).
Small families. Some up-to-date totals and percentages. Overcrowding goes on (p. 131).
NEWS AND NOTES A T this moment, two distinguished statesmen from France are in London— M. Flandin, the Premier, and M. Laval, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Their admirable errand is supposed to be on behalf o f Disarmament, or Limitation o f Armaments ; and the means to this end which they favour are said to be closer agreements with Britain for the security o f France from invasion. In these pages, we do not use circumlocution ; so we can say at once that the French dread the Germans, who outnumber them b y more than three to two. A large part o f the difficulty, as it exists in February, 1935, is due to the unreality o f the protagonists’ formal utterances. Germany complains with bitterness o f the Inequality in Armaments imposed on her b y the Versailles
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Treaty ; but, at the same time, she ignores that Treaty and becomes every week a more strongly armed Central European Power. France insists that, until her own security is guaranteed, she cannot release Germany from her Treaty obligations; yet, all the time, France knows that the Treaty, so far as German Inequality goes, is now a mere scrap of paper. Germany could overwhelm Belgium to-morrow and could threaten France with another irruption— the third in less than seventy years. We so often hear from French lips the word “ realism ” in connection with politics that we may fairly ask for the wiping o f unreality off the slate. The crux o f the matter is whether Europe can safely trust Germany’s declaration that the return o f the Saar to the Reich has ended the millennial feud between Germany and France. Herr Hitler himself may be sincere in this pacific assurance ; but he is not immortal and an aggressor may succeed him as Leader o f a militarist people. Hence the French yearning for Security is wholly reasonable.
It looks as if the Bolivian-Paraguayan War is to be ended b y the old-fashioned method o f one side beating the other. Although Paraguay is the smaller and weaker republic, her little armies have attained a clear ascendency in the field. No longer is the War practically confined to the disputed Gran Chaco area. The Paraguayans have captured Boyuibe, a place where six roads meet. It is in the centre of an oilfield already developed, and a general who holds it can threaten the Bolivian town of Villa Montes, on the way to Sucre and La Paz.
To blame the League of Nations for allowing the Gran Chaco War to pursue its military course to the very end would be unfair. Geneva has done its best. In this context The Tablet must speak with reserve ; but we may at least hint that an ethical institution much older than the League o f Nations, and with a much higher prestige among Spanishspeaking peoples, has also failed in La Paz and Asunción. We may go further and say that the opportunity which seemed to be presented b y the
