V ol. i 66. No. 4967.
L ondon, J u l y 20, 1935.
S ix p en c e .
Registered at the General P ost Office as a Newspaper.
News and Notes . .. Page . . . 65 Aidan or Augustine? ... 69 A la C a r t e .............. ... 70 Dykes or Dredgers ? 70 The Relics of SS.
Fisher and Thomas John More 71 From The Tablet of
Ago ......................... Long 73 Coming Events . .. 73 Review s :
Charles I and Rome 74 An Ineffective Presenta
tion ......................... 75 The Church and Woman
kind ......................... 75
CONTENTS
Review s ( Gontd.)
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Piers Plowman .............. 76 Blessed Philip Howard 76 New Books and Music . . . 76 Books Received .............. 77 Notes for Musicians . . . 78 Walking to Walsingham . . . 78 Rescue Work in the South 79 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 81 The Apostleship of the Sea 88 School P r iz e -d a y s .............. 84
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Obituary .............. . . . 84 W i l l ......................... . . . 84 Et C/ETEr a .............. . . . 85 Society of Our Lady of
Lourdes .............. . . . 86 Teresa Higginson ... Orb i s Terrarum : . . . 86
England .............. . . . 86 Scotland .............. . . . 87 Ireland .............. . . . 87 Albania .............. . . . 87 Austria .............. . . . 88 France .............. . . . 88 Hungary .............. . . . 88 I t a l y ......................... . . . 88
Orb i s Terrarum ( Gontd.) :
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Poland ......................... 88 Portugal ......................... 88 Scandinavia ............ 90 The Sudan ............ 90 Switzerland ............ 90 Uganda ......................... 90 U.S.A................................ 90 The Tablet and theHolidays 92 C.S.G.— A London Scholar
ship .................................... 92 College Scholarships . . . 92 Social and Personal . .. 92 Chess 92
NOTANDA “ Organizing Prosperity.” Mr. Lloyd George’s proposals fo r reducing Unemployment (p. 70).
W h o was the Apostle o f the English ? The L igh tfoot legend o f St. Aidan revived (p. 69).
Relics o f St. John o f Rochester and St. Thomas o f Chelsea. In an interesting and detailed survey, Monsignor Hallett describes the relics still existing and tells us where they may be found (p. 71).
Dykes or Dredgers ? A Tablet leader-writer draws a moral from the overflowing o f the Yellow River (p. 70).
Belfast and Edinburgh. Ugly events in Ulster’s capital and threats o f lawlessness in Scotland’s (pp. 66-7).
Cardinal La Fontaine. The story, in brief, o f a great churchman and patriot (p. 81).
Concerning a little company o f pilgrims who walked to Walsingham. O f a pious journey planned and carried through; and o f what befell on the way (p. 78).
An imminent Kulturkampf ? The Osservatore Romano protests against a violated Concordat (p. 65).
NEWS AND NOTES IT A L Y 'S case against Abyssinia, which may become also a casus belli, is to the effect that a civilized Power cannot endure for ever an uncivilized neighbour. In these pages we have consistently deprecated an Italian military expedition, and we still most earnestly hope that a settlement may be reached without bloodshed. It is, however, a deadly weakness in Abyssinia’s case that her territory is still a happy hunting ground for slave-traders and that, despite earnest entreaties from the League of Nations and promises from
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herself, she does not stamp out this loathsome traffic. I f Italy lights the Ethiopian Negus and his braves, she will be as unpopular as was Britain nearly forty years ago when we fought the Boers. There are, however, not many persons to-day who would deny that the incorporation of the Transvaal and Orange Free State Boers into the British Commonwealth of Nations was a good thing. This is a consideration to be pondered by those earnest Protestants who have written to The Tablet crying out that the Pope will be a coward and a hypocrite if he does not threaten with excommunication every Italian Catholic soldier who follows his country’s banners to an Abyssinian battlefield. His Holiness knows more than these letter-writers about the Abyssinians and about the political and administrative conditions in which they are most likely to make progress. For many years he has had a college of Abyssinian students under his very eye in the Vatican City itself, and he has also enjoyed direct communication with Addis Ababa. But, instead of making a pronouncement for which the moment has not come, our Holy Father expects the League (to which both Abyssinia and Italy belong) to compose this acute difference. To set up the Vatican in rivalry with the League would be an enormous blunder ; and, although Geneva treated him shabbily, the Pontiff has more than once asked his flock to stand by Geneva. The statesmen of the League are expected to hold an ad hoc meeting next week, and the Pope, like the rest of us, awaits its findings.
Between Nazi Germany and the Holy See battle is joined. The chief issue is Sterilization. Dr. Frick, Herr Hitler’s Minister o f the Interior, takes up a Totalitarian attitude and declares that as the Sterilization Decrees are laws o f the Reich Catholic Germans are bound to obey them. He might as well say that Catholics would be bound to obey a law ordering Christians to go out and kill one Jew apiece. The Osservatore Romano replies that the Concordat assures to Catholics the free exercise o f
