Ansaat 17, 1935
THE TABLET N . W eek ly N ew s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUB ANIMOS BTTAM ADDIMUS DT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. i66. No. 4971.
L ondon, August 17, 1935.
S i x p e n c e .
R egistered at t h i General P ost Office as a Niw s p a p ib .
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New s and No t e s ...................193 Wild W a l e s ............................ 197 Pilgrims and Paynims . . . 198 Jointly or Severally? . . . 198 Kensitry and the B.B.C. 199 An Austrian Passion Play 201 Books Received ................. 202 R e v ie w s :
The Kingdom of God . . . 202 Aspects of Prayer . . . 203 Dr. Arendzen’s Sermons 203 John Bull and His Island 204 New Books and Music . . . 204 Ch e s s 205.
CONTENTS
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The Letters of Hilarion — X I I ............................ 206 Ob it u ary ...............................2 06 W i l l s 207 The Plainsong Summer
School ............................ 207 Correspondence :
Rome: (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 209 The Diocese of Menevia 210 Coming Eve n t s ........... 210 ET CtETERA 211 The Royal Jubilee . . . 212
From The Tablet of Long
Ago
Another New Church in
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Cheshire ............................ 212 The Chisawasha Congress 213 The Brussels Exhibition 213 London University Ex
aminations ........... 213 Orb i s Terrarum :
England ............................ 214 Scotland ............................ 214 Ireland ............................ 214 Austria ............................ 214
Orbis Terr arum ( C on td.) :
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Belgium ............................ 215 China ............................ 215 France ............................ 215 Germany ............................ 216 Holland ............................ 216 Italy 216 Madagascar ................. 218 Morocco ............................ 218 Northern Rhodesia . . . 218 Poland ............................ 218 Spain ............................ 218 U.S.A....................................... 220 Yugoslavia 220 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 220
NOTANDA
Wales. A word-portrait and photograph o f Menevia’s new Bishop; and some remarks on the Welsh Nationalists at Caernarvon (pp. 197, 210, 211).
The Italo-Abyssinian crisis. Strange doctrine from the Giornale d’ltalia (p. 193).
A mendacious memorial. Kensitry’ s attack on the British Broadcasting Corporation (p. 199).
The Passion Play at Thiersee. A description, by the Rev. Sir John O ’Connell, o f a beautifully-set sacred drama in the Austrian Tyrol (p. 201).
The Episcopal apron and gaiters. A n Anglican error corrected (p. 196).
“ Pilgrims and Paynims.” A Tablet leader-writer shows how Catholics on pilgrimage may benefit non-Catholics (p. 198).
Chishawasha’ s first Social Congress. H ow white men and black co-operated at a fruitful three days’ gathering in Rhodesia (p. 213).
A church dedicated, and a nightly prayer, by which an English Martyr has constant honour in an Italian city (p. 211).
N E W S A N D N O T E S
S O high is the authority of Signor Gayda and o f the Giornale d’ltalia that we must take seriously an article which all Rome was reading last Monday. Signor Gayda maintains that Italy’s undertaking not to resort to War “ holds good in Europe only,” and that “ the obligations of the Kellogg Pact cannot apply in this case, because Abyssinia has broken her agreements with Italy.” On such lines of reasoning the Kellogg Pact could be made worthless and meaningless all the world over.
N ew S er ie s . Vol. CXXXIV. No. 4370.
That Signor Mussolini intends to convince the world of Fascist Italy’s pioneer spirit and mechanical efficiency is the burden of a com munication made to us by a well-informed helper of The Tablet. II Duce, says our friend, is not so foolish as to have worked out a slow advance of infantry from Eritrea, on the Red Sea, or from Italian Somaliland, on the Indian Ocean. Such a plan of campaign would require thousands of millions of lire and would mature so slowly that Italy ’s war-spirit would grow stale. The strategy is more likely to be a succession of “ hops ” by air-craft which could transport men, field-guns, munitions and water to spots chosen for their unsuitability to guerilla attacks and sniping b y the Abyssinians. Not until each new base was most amply furnished with stores and men would the next “ hop ” be undertaken. Our correspondent thinks that three such stages— he calls them a hop, a skip and a jump— from each of the two littorals would be enough to bring the Italians to Addis Ababa. WTe do not cease to pray that both Italy and Abyssinia will so honour their signatures to the Kellogg Pact as to make warlike operations unnecessary ; but we may point out that, in the lamentable event of armed conflict, the capture or destruction of Addis Ababa would not be like the fall of a European capital. Not so long ago the Abyssinian metropolis was movable. The Court used up the local firewood and then set up its G.H.Q. somewhere else. Moreover, it would be reckless in such a climate as Abyssinia’s to rely upon air-lines of communication. Daredevil soldiers of fortune, especially airmen, wotild literally fly to the Emperor’s help and Italy might have some ugly surprises.
“ Expect the Worst ” is an even less admirable counsel than “ Never Cross a Bridge till you Come to it.” Although Lord William Cecil, Protestant Bishop of Exeter, has explained his prophecy of imminent War by saying “ I am a pessimist,” he has not helped Peace by defeatist remarks.
