September 14, 1935

THE TABLET A W eek 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 VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

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

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Registered at the Generai, P ost Office as a Newspaper.

C O N T E N T S

News and Notes .. Page ... 321

Fides Albionis

From The Tablet of Long

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Prayers for Peace . .. Page ... 339 Orbis Terrarum (Oontd.) Page

325 Ago .........................334 Et C.e t e r a .............. ... 340 Germany ....................... . 345

Writers and Readers 325 Obituary .........................334 The Fulda Pastoral ... 341 Holland ....................... . 345 “ A Pacific E r a ” .. 326 The Sea Apostolate Congress 334 Pax Rom ana.............. ... 342 Italy ....................... . 345 Tlio Blood-Bath of StockLetters to the Editor: Mexico ....................... . 346

Reviews :

h o lm ....................... 327 The Synod of Hertford . .. 335 0 rb i s Terrarum :

England and Germany . . . 335 England .............. ... 343 Spain ....................... . 346

Poland ....................... . 346

at Brighton

The Tideless Sea .. 328 East Anglian Saints . .. 335 Ireland .............. ... 343 Switzerland ............ . 346 This Realm, This England 328 Correspondence : Argentina ... 344 U.S.A.................................. 348 Among the Kwawkewlths 329 Rome (Our Own CorreAustria .............. ... 344 Yugoslavia ............ 348 New Books and Music ... 329 spondent’s Weekly Letter Belgian Congo ... 344 348 Downside Abbey 330 from) . .. . . . . . . 337 British East Africa ... 344 Coming E vents ............ 348 Sound Journalism .. 332 Cardinal MacRory’s Golden Canada .............. ... 344 The Brangwyn Exhibition Jubilee .........................339 China .............. ... 344 Social and P ersonal .. 348

333 Menevia: The Consecration 339 France .............. ... 344 Chess ..................................

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NOTANDA The Crisis. Britain at Geneva (p. 325). Some Notes on the Holy Father’s recent discourse to Catholic nurses (p. 322).

Cardinal MacRory’s golden jubilee. In a letter of felicitation the Holy Father surveys the Irish Primate’s great achievements for the glory of God and the salvation of souls (p. 339).

Australia and Japan. A Tablet leader-writer on the prospects of “ a Pacific era ” (p. 326).

Sound Journalism. The Archbishop of Westminster’s address to Catholic members of the Institute of Journalists (pp. 325, 332).

The consecration of Downside’s abbey church. A photograph of the Chapel of St. Benedict (pp. 330, 331).

A misleading article on “ The Blood-bath of Stockholm ” (p. 327).

The Fulda Meeting of the German Episcopate. The Tablet publishes the first instalment of a translation of the Bishops’ Collective Pastoral (p. 341).

NEWS AND NOTES "DESSIMISTS explain the protraction of the -*■ Italo-Abyssiniari crisis on the sole ground th a t military operations in the territories of the Negus cannot begin until the rains are over. Those of us who are neither pessimists nor optimists but plain realists will not try to decide whether the pessimists are right on this point. All we know is th a t many weeks have passed, without the firing of a shot, since the crisis became acute, and th a t these weeks have been crowded with mediatory and conciliatory activities by sincere lovers of Peace. At the hour of our writing this Note the Assembly of the League of Nations is in full session and is relegating other business—not all of it unimportant—to the

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background, so th a t every stone may be turned in the hope of finding a settlement. Our own Sir Samuel Hoare has made a speech which convinces the world th a t a disinterested Great Britain stands faithfully by the Covenants and Pacts which bear her signature and th a t she expects her co-signatories to be no less honourable. Italy will bring herself no credit if she interprets Britain’s pro-Genevan policy as anti-Italian. No affront has been offered to Italy. From the outset the League has been willing to examine the Italian case and is even now busied with it. We admit, however, th a t the British Foreign Minister uttered a few words which criticize both Hitlerite Germany and Mussolinist Italy. The worship of force leading to “ War for War’s sake ” is in flat contradiction against the solemn promises made by Germany and Ita ly when they deliberately signed certain historic parchments. Like other rainbows, the bright-hued bow in the sky which lately cheered our Holy Father soon faded ; but its message of hope remains.

Self-depreciation is a habit of the English race and it is a fault less glaring than the boastfulness of some other peoples. There are moments, however, when a nation as well as an individual may reasonably obey th a t once popular song which had for refrain : “ So Give Yourself a Pat on the Back.” Our people are entitled to warm praise for their good temper under many recent affronts. Some of the Italian newspapers have printed attacks upon England which might have been justly resented ; and some of the satirical cartoons have gone too far. Moreover, even the Italian radio, which is under State control, has emitted a provocative perversion of Maltese history which was as mischievous as it was untruthful. All the same, most of our fellow-citizens have kept cool. Seeing th a t Abyssinia has frontiers towards British and Anglo-Egyptian territories much longer than her two frontiers towards Italian possessions, it would not have been surprising to find a majority of the British nation taking deep offence a t Italian taunts and threats. But happily there has been