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Jone 22, 1935

THE

TABLET A W e ek ly N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUB ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMÜS ITT IN INCCEPTIS VE8TBIS CONOTANTEB MANEATIS

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

Vol. 165. No. 4963.

London, June 22, 1935.

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B eoibtxbed at t e i Gin ib a i , P ost O n i c i a * a Niw s p a p ib .

News and Notes . . . Page . . . 777 M e x ic o ......................... . . . 781 St. Bede— a Postscript . . . 781 Bede, Saint and Doctor . . . 782 From The Tablet o f Long

A g o .......................... . . . 785 R eview s :

L ’Eminence Blanche . . . 786 The Life and Times of

Typhus Fever . . . . . . 786 Horace Plunkett . . . . . . 786 Beaumont’s Batting and

B o w l i n g ......................... 787 Germany’s Grand Old Man 787

CONTENTS

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Books Re c e i v e d ................. 787 New Books and Music . . . 788 Obituary . . . 788 Letter of Our Most Holy

Lord Pius X I ................. 789 Ordinations ............................ 789 The House of G o d ................. 790 “ Underhills” ................. 791 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 793 The Problem o f Christian

P h ilo sophy............................ 794

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Coming Events ............. 794 Brownedge and the English

Martyrs ............................ 795 Et Ce t e r a .................... 796 Cardinal Bourne’ s Will . . . 797 Letters to the Editor :

Hospital S u n d a y ......... 797 Our Up-to-Date National

Library ............................ 798 The Word “ Mass” . . . 798 C .W .L .: The Annual Con­

ference ............................ 798

Orbis Terrarum:

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England ............................ 799 Scotland ............................ 800 Ireland ............................ 800 Czechoslovakia ................. 801 France . . . ..*. . . . 801 Holland ............................ 802 India ............................ 802 Luxemburg............................ 802 Poland ............................ 802 Spain ......................... 802 Y u g o s la v ia ............................ 804 The Welwyn Railway Dis­

aster .............. 804 Social and P ersonal . . . 804 Chess ....................................... 804

NOTANDA St. Bede. The Tablet concludes its reporting o f a great commemoration. The Sovereign Pontiff’ s Letter and the Archbishop o f Westminster’s discourse (pp. 781, 782, 789).

Mexico. Good hopes o f better days fo r Church and people (p. 781).

Cardinal Bourne’ s will. A misapprehension corrected (p. 797).

In a first pastoral lettei, the Archbishop o f Westminster writes o f the g lory o f God’ s House. Diocesan progress in church building and improvements during the past year (p. 790).

Some Notes on Britain’ s Naval Agreement with Germany (p. 777).

What the faithful might not do at Cuerden in 1740; and what they have there done in 1935. Good work by a “ stubborne nest o f Catholicks ” (p. 795).

The Rudeness o f Lord Hugh Cecil. A n untimely taunt (p. 780).

State Advertising. The halting swan-song o f Sir Kingsley W o o d (p. 778).

NEWS AND NOTES Y Y 7E are informed that the suggestion made in last

’ * week’s Tablet, in our editorial article headed " Austria A lso,” has found favour with the authorities concerned, and that British soldiers who fought in the Great War will go to Vienna as well as t o Berlin.

It has been The Tablet’s pleasant duty on many occasions— b y the way, “ occasions,” in the strict sense o f the word, bring out His Grace’s best— to acknowledge the happy skill with which the Archbishop o f Canterbury does his public work. Dr. Lang’s address at the Duke o f Kent’s wedding to the Princess Marina was praised b y us in a leading

N ew S e r ie s . Vol. CXXXIII. No. 4362.

article ; and, since then, we have heard with admiration the same gifted orator’s broadcast on Their Majesties’ Semi-Jubiiee. Last Wednesday at a Mansion House banquet, Dr. Lang spoke graceful words o f welcome to Archbishop Hinsley which are highly appreciated b y His Grace’s Catholic fellow-countrymen.

Listeners to last Tuesday evening’s broadcast transmissions were informed that the new AngloGerman naval agreement has evoked enthusiasm in Germany and that it is hailed as " a triumph for the Führer’s policy.” So often has German satisfaction been the measure o f some other country’s blunder or loss that these pæans through the microphones did not predispose us to examine the Agreement with equanimity. W e shall try, however, to consider it purely on its merits, regardless o f German joy- ________

Anybody who looks at maps o f the world as they were re-drawn and re-coloured after the Treaties of 1919, will see that the maritime obligations o f the British Commonwealth are enormously greater than those o f Germany. Y et the new Agreement, tacitly brushing aside the Versailles Treaty as waste paper, allows Germany to possess naval tonnage equal to 35 per cent, o f the total tonnage possessed b y Britain, Australasia, Canada, South Africa, and all the rest o f our world-wide, sea-washed Empire. As for submarines, those sneaking war-craft which We had hoped and prayed to see abolished, Germany is to have the right to possess as many as all the nations o f the British Commonwealth added together. It is true that Berlin promises to build less than half her maximum. T o be precise, she says that for the present, and unless circumstances compel her to re-open the matter with London, she will build only up to 45 per cent, o f the British Empire’s strength in submarines. But let those who have not lately done so consult a map o f Germany. They will see that nearly all her boundaries are land-frontiers, running with those o f Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland,