August 24, 1935
THE TABLET y l W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM VOBIS GBATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMDS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANE ATI S
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . i66. No. 4972,
London, August 24, 1935.
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News and No t e s ................. 225 A Truce of God ................. 229 His Majesty’s Ministers . . . 230 From The Tablet of Long
A g o ....................................... 231 Lope de Yega ................. 231 Russia To-day ................. 232 St. Felix of Dunwich . . . 233 Books Received ................. 234 Review s :
Engelbert Dollfuss and
His Austria ................. 234 “ Syria ” 235
CONTENTS
R eview s ( Contd.) :
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A Five Years’ P la n : Western Style ................. 235 Bristol and the Spains . . . 236 The Abbey Theatre . . . 236 Subjectivism Run Riot . . . 236 £555,000,000 237 New Books and Music . . . 238 Sermons for the Times . . . 238 The Archdiocese of West
minster ............................ 239 Ordinations 239
Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
Page spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 241 Obituary ............................ 242 ET CiETERA............................ 243 Miss Mary Kaye ................. 244 Orbis Terrarum ;
England ............................ 246 Scotland ............................ 246 Ireland ............................ 247
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Belgian Congo ................. 248 Belgium ............................ 248 Brazil ............................ 248 China ............................ 248 Czechoslovakia ................. 249 France ............................ 250 Germany ............................ 250 Italy 250 Poland ............................ 250 Spain ............................ 250 Switzerland............................252 U.S.A.......................................252 Social and Personal . . . 252 Ch e s s ....................................... 252
NOTANDA Mr. George Lansbury’s proposal fo r “ A Truce o f God.” The role o f the Papacy in temporal disputes is explained by a Tablet leader-writer (p. 229).
H is Majesty’s Ministers. W ords o f praise for their devotion to duty (p. 230).
The recent outbursts o f violence in Edinburgh and in Belfast. Tw o episcopal protests: Dr. M cDonald’s letter to The Times, and Dr. Mageean’s to Mr. Stanley Baldwin (pp. 246, 247).
Australasia’s empty spaces. Some plain words from Lord Bledisloe (p. 226).
The L i fe and Death o f Dollfuss. Some new books on contemporary Austria (p. 234).
Tw o testimonies as to present-day conditions in Russia. A Protestant minister’s experiences at Soviet hands (p. 232).
Tw o woodcuts and a pen-and-ink drawing by a young Catholic artist (pp. 244-5).
The tercentenary o f Lope de Vega. Professor Allison Peers’ appreciation o f Spain’s greatest dramatic poet (p. 231).
Some new official appointments in the Archdiocese o f Westminster (p. 239).
NEWS AND NOTES VE7ITH Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s opinion that
’ * the present moment is as grave as those tense moments which preceded the explosion and conflagration o f 1914 we do not agree. It is, however, grave enough to demand our prayers as Christians, our solidarity as loyal Britons and our prudence in speech as good Europeans. Happily the National Government has little to complain of in the behaviour of the Oppositions and can go to Geneva ignoring those Comintern friends of M. Litvinoff who have been saying that Britain’s
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efforts for Peace in East Africa are “ capitalistic hypocrisy.” Our people have shown their traditional and still admirable calmness under newspaper attacks from a certain country ; and we are confident that, despite the attempts to inflame them which some o f our less reputable publicists are making, Britons will retain a cool and judicial temper.
Hardly anybody was surprised to hear that the Paris Conference between representatives o f Britain, France and Italy (the three European signatories of the 1906 Treaty concerning Abyssinia) had broken down, or broken up, without result. Yet no sensible man regrets that Mr. Eden, Baron Aloisi and M. Laval have met. Having regard to Italian sensitiveness towards “ interference ” b y the League o f Nations, peace-lovers had to try some move of a non-Genevan character. Their failure at least enables them to say that they have left no stone unturned.
That the future of the League of Nations is deeply convolved with the Italo-Abyssinian trouble nobody denies ; nor does anybody dare to hope that, in the event o f war, any large and valuable salvage could be effected from the wreck o f Genevan hopes. This, however, makes it the more necessary to refrain from kicking the League until after the fateful meeting which is to be held less than a fortnight hence.
Practising its own precept, The Tablet would omit further allusion to the League just now if an oft-reiterated statement of the Daily M a il’s did not require correction for the enlightenment o f our foreign readers. The Mail asserts that public opinion in England demands that this country shall get right out of the League of Nations immediately. The statement is false. If the coming Autumn’s events should, most unhappily and
