May 4, 1935.

THE TABLET A W e e k ly 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 VESTBIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

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

V o l . 165. No. 4956.

L o n d o n , M a y 4 , 1935.

S i x p e n c e .

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

News and No t e s ................. 553 Pro Rege ............................ 557 Westminster Calling . . . 557 Our Historic English Con-

rents ............................ 559 Coming E vents . . . . . . 560 Re v i e w s :

“ Earth’s Eternal Orphan” 561 French and English . . . 561 Sancta Trinitas .............. 562

CONTENTS

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New Books and Mosic . . . 563 Tamquam Grande Sacramentum ............................ 564 Correspondence:

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 569 From The Tablet o f Long

A g o ....................................... 570 Obituary ............................ 571

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W i l l s ....................................... 571 Et C e t e r a ............................ 572 Ch e s s ....................... . . . 573 The Triduum at Lourdes . . . 574 The Feast of St. George 577 Orbis Terrarum:

England ............ . . . 578 Ireland ............................ 578

Or b i s T errabum (Contd .) :

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Aether ............................ 578 Czechoslovakia ................. 578 France ............................ 579 Germany ............................ 579 Luxemburg............................579 Nippon ............................ 579 Poland ............................ 580 Spain ............................ 580 Switzerland ................. 580 The Royal Silver Jubilee . . . 580 Social and P ersonal . . . 580

NOTANDA Under the familiar heading “ P ro Rege,” a Tablet leader-writer hails Their Majesties’ Silver Jubilee (p. 557).

Westminster’s fifth Archbishop. An account o f His Grace’s Enthronement and a full print o f his first Allocution (p. 564).

The Triduum at Lourdes. What the Cardinal Legate did and and said at the Sacred Grotto. The initiative o f Father Waterkeyn (p. 574).

Christianity in Germany. A grave outlook. Arrests and brutalities in many places. The Abbot o f Maria-Laach (pp. 554-5).

The Royal Academy does its duty. The rejected paintings o f Mr. Stanley Spencer (p. 555).

Councillor Cormack’s defeat. The civic reception in Edinburgh o f the Catholic Young Men’s Societies (p. 555).

The man at the wicket. A relation from the annals o f a Benedictine convent in the Low Countries in a time o f peril and need (p. 559).

NEWS AND NOTES F OR more than a thousand years before unmerry men tried to turn its sweet blue-andwhite into angry Red, May-day was the day of Our Ladye Mary, queenliest o f queens. April closed with great prayers at a shrine of this Regina P ad s for the t o o n o f world-peace ; and therefore we give thanks for a May-day which passed without bloodshed or riot even in the cities where it had become an anniversary to be dreaded. It is true that Moscow, where Our Ladye is now despised, made it a day of military bragging, and that in Vienna, where a Christian Government has just been showing clemency to its bitter foes, Nazi and Communist vied with one another in marring

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the day’s harmony. But, speaking broadly, this year’s has been a peaceful May-day. In our own land, crowds are cheerfully jostling one another in streets brave with greenery and bunting in token o f the national rejoicing over Their Majesties’ Silver Jubilee.

That there is nothing new under the sun is a saw which does not apply to Britain’s foreign policy. Our rulers not only maintain, but foster, strengthen, and tighten relations with a State which treats them with the utmost contempt. Nobody with adequate knowledge will deny that the Comintern in Moscow is in such close touch with the Kremlin that words printed by the Comintern— although it may be found convenient to repudiate some o f them later on— are practically the words o f MM. Stalin and Litvinov. Yet, before Mr. Eden has recovered from the fatigues and anxieties o f his Russian visit, the Comintern has published what it calls “ A Scheme for a Soviet Government in England.” The d.ocument is so long that a full translation o f it would fill about twenty columns of our “ News and Notes.” We are informed that an English version is being prepared for wholesale distribution in our factories, shipyards and arsenals. The Scheme is no mere political fantasy. On the contrary, the British masses are asked to regard as “ their immediate task ” the complete destruction of our present system of government. As soon as “ the British Section of the Comintern ” has seized power the Army, Navy, Air Force, Police, Parliament and Judiciary are to be disbanded. Then “ the Soviets o f England, standing with clean and empty hands ” before mankind, will create an entirely new Red Army, Fleet and Police, as well e s Red Tribunals. Parliament having vanished, “ the Government ” will immediately proclaim that the British Empire is at an end, and that all loans, both private and by the State, to what we now call the Dominions, are cancelled. The grateful nations o f the dissolved British Commonwealth will then be encouraged to become so many