H»y 25, 1985
THE TABLET A W eek ly N ew 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 of His Holiness Pius JX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 165. No. 4959.
London, May 25, 1935.
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New s and Notes . . . 649 Pope and King ................. 653 Bede : English and Roman 653 Frost in M a y ............................ 654 Our Historic English Con
vents ....................................... 655 Saint Bede the Venerable 656 St. Joseph’s Retreat, High
gate ....................................... 657 Ordination at Valladolid . . . 657 R e v ie w s :
By a Convert from Metho
dism ............................ 657 “ A Literary Cosmopoli
tan ”
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CONTENTS
R e v i e w s ( Oontd.).
“ The Dismal Science” . . . 658 Jurisprudence and Some
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'Ologies .........................658 New Books and Music . . . 659 Sermons for the Times . . . 660 Ch e s s ................................661 From The Tablet of Long
A g o ................................662 W i l l s .................................. 662 Ob it u a r y ........................... 662 L etters to the Ed i t o r :
Lourdes: A Call to Prayer 663
L etters (Oontd.) : Our Historic English Con
Page vents ......................... 663 The Burial of James I I 663 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) .............. . . . 665 “ Bright Intervals ” “ Verax Historicus ” . . . 668 . . . 669 Et Ce t e r a ................ . . . 673 Or b i s Terrarum :
England .............. . . . 674 Ireland .............. . . . 674
Or b is T errarum (Oontd.) :
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Argentina Austria Borneo Canada Ceylon France Indochina Mongolia Nippon Portugal Tunisia The Toast of the Pope . . . 676 Coming Events ............... 676 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 676
. . . 674 . . . 674 . . . 674 . . . 674 . . . 675 . . . 675 . . . 675 . . . 676 . . . 676 . . . 676 . . . 676
N O T A N D A
A Great Sunday in Rome. H ow the Sovereign Pontiff, on the anniversary-day o f Ann Boleyn’s execution, declared the sainthood o f Cardinal Fisher and Sir Thomas More (p. 665). A scene at nightfall. The illumination o f St. Peter’s (p. 667).
St. Bede, “ the Venerable.” The Archbishop o f Liverpool’ s lecture; also a paper by the Rev. Edward Flynn and an article on St. Bede’s Romanism by a Tablet leader-writer (pp. 653, 656, 669).
Catholics in the Third Reich. Heavy punishment fo r a nun’ s technical “ crime.” A campaign against the poor-box (p. 650).
Pope and King. A letter from the Archbishop o f Westminster adumbrates a new and better practice at Catholic banquets (pp. 653, 676).
M. Rahard o f Montreal. A judicial decision releases The Tablet’s comment upon a case much exploited in No-Popery circles (p. 652).
our Lord was crucified, should be spending our time thinking how we can get the mangled bodies o f children to hospital, and how we can keep the poison gas from going down the throats o f the people. I t is time all Europe recognized this. I look for light wherever I can find it. I believe there is some light in the speech that was made last night. W e must all get hold o f more light; all our friends who work with us. W e must make a fresh resolve, and I believe that an opportunity may be open even now at the eleventh hour, knowing that the night is ever darkest before the dawn, when we may within a time measurable in our lives see banished from the world the most fearful terror and prostitution o f man's knowledge that has ever been known in the world. It is with grateful hearts that we transcribe words so worthy of a Christian nation.
A passage in the Führer’s discourse which worries us is the allusion to “ upheavals ” in “ countries with Governments not supported by the general confidence of their peoples.” There can be no doubt that Austria is meant and that the Nazis are protecting themselves in advance against the outbreak of world-opinion which would attend a putsch for the overthrow of Austria’s present rulers.
NEWS AND NOTES O NE of last Wednesday morning’s newspaperplacards bore the words “ Hitler’s Terms to Europe.” This was a just description o f the Fiihrer’s oration in the Kroll Operahaus. W e are glad, however, that British statesmen have tried to find things useful and hopeful rather than things exacerbating in the speech. Mr. Baldwin, in hailing Germany’s co-operation against a war in the air, said :
I f we can get rid o f fear in Europe, we may hope then to have some progress and drive this perpetual terror from the minds o f men. _
I have been occupied myself in studying questions of air-raid precautions, and I tell the House that I have been made almost physically sick to think that I and my friends and statesmen in every country of Europe, 2 ,0 00 years after
What makes Herr Hitler’s Austrian policy so grave is the effect it must have in weakening the confidence so necessary at this moment. The Führer made offers which, if we could fully trust them, would carry Europe a long way on the road to Disarmament and Peace. He agrees to fall in with any international limitation o f the size of warships and the calibre of naval guns, as well as to restrict or even abolish the use of submarines. Further, he seems willing to collaborate in the prohibition of general bombing from the air. So far as they go, these offers are magnificent. But everything depends on our being able to trust Germany as an absolutely sincere enemy of war ; and, therefore, we cannot be other than uneasy when we find Herr Hitler stinting and qualifying those assurances of respect for Austrian Independence which are essential to European peace. As it was from Middle Europe
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