September 7 , 1935

THE TABLET s i 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 GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMTTS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANE ATI S

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

V o l . 166. No. 4974. L o n d o n , S e p t e m b e r 7, 1935.

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Registered at the General P ost Office as a Newspaper.

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News and No t e s ................. 289 Olet Oleum ............................ 293 Silence in C o u r t ! ................. 293 The Full-time P o e t ................. 294 The Great “ Great Wes­

tern ”

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In Dedicatione ................. 295 The Letters of Hilarion.—

X I I I

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Downside Abbey Church . . . 299

CONTENTS

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From The Tablet of Long

A g o ....................................... 299 Reviews :

Pedro Menendez . . . 300 “ Mourret-Thompson ” . . . 300 The Middlesex Sessions 301 New Books and Music . . . 302 Colonization: A Sacred

Trust

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Obituary ............................ 303

Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

Page spondent’ s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 305 Coming Events ................. 309 Episcopal Engagements 309 W il ls 309 Et C/Et e r a ............................ 310 Queen Astrid ................. 311 Orb 1s Terrar um :

England ............................ 311 Wales ............................ 312 1

Orbis Terrarum( Contd.) :

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Ireland ............................ 312 France ............................ 312 Germany ............................ 312 Holland ............................ 314 Hungary ............................ 314 Italy 316 Poland ............................ 316 Spain ............................ 316 Social and Personal . . . 316 Ch e s s ....................................... 316

N O T A N D A The noble and holy profession o f nursing. A verbatim translation o f the H o ly Father’s address to the members o f the International Catholic Nurses’ Congress on the duties and privileges o f their work (pp. 306-8).

“ Silence in Court ” fo r the judges at Geneva. An Oil Interlude (p. 293).

Downside Abbey. In an illustrated account o f a day’s run, “ Hilarion ” briefly describes the church which is to be consecrated next week (p. 296).

Germany. The Catholic Bishops on the present situation. A first glance at the join t pastoral from Fulda (p. 312).

Centenary o f the G .W .R . A Tablet leaderwriter on a great Company (p. 294).

Catholic altars on ocean liners. An Anglican story about the Normandie. A hint fo r pursers (p. 291).

More about Soil-waste. South Australia’ s recent loss o f a thousand square miles (p. 291).

The dangers besetting “ full-time ” poets who lack assured incomes. The perturbing case o f Sir William Watson (p. 294).

NEWS AND NOTES A S the grievous news came to London only on the afternoon o f The Tablet’s press-day last week, we could insert no more than a few lines about Queen Astrid’s death. Many peoples beside his faithful Belgians have mourned with King Leopold, who knows that he is upheld by great buttresses o f prayer.

Northern Ireland is his place o f residence, the Irish Primate leads, in a Catholic sense, a United Ireland which knows no frontiers save those cut deeply by bigots along the map-makers’ light lines. The Tablet, not long ago, published words o f His Eminence about the interwoven destinies o f the two Islands which are among our most cherished memories. Long may the successor of St. Patrick live and reign !

Obeying our own precept of “ Silence in Court,” we renounce the critic’s and especially the censor’s office in respect o f this week’s doings at Geneva and are content to be little more than reporters. As Lake Leman is only a dozen leagues or so from the Lac du Bourget, where Mr. Baldwin is making a cure, Mr. Eden was able to confer with his chief up to the eve o f the Council meeting. He presented the British Government’s view at the Geneva table clearly and fairly ; o f course avoiding that question o f sanctions which cannot properly be raised until the circumstances have changed for the worse. M. Laval identified France with Britain as a loyal member-State of the League. On behalf o f Italy, Baron Aloisi presented a long and stern indictment of Abyssinia which frightened those hearers who do not understand that certain Latins habitually “ begin high,” so as to have plenty o f room for a dignified descent. The B.B.C. “ observer” at Geneva, for instance, was so deeply depressed by Wednesday’s proceedings that he communicated his pessimism to millions of listeners-in and cast a gloom over countless British supper-tables. While not minimising the dangers of the situation in which Peace is just now precariously balanced, we ourselves do not abandon hope that, if rough elbows can be kept away from it, the dispute may still be settled without War.

To Cardinal MacRory, who is to be England's guest next week, we offer respectful congratulations on the golden jubilee o f his priesthood. Although I

During the week, sundry pacifists who are suddenly become sabre-rattlers have importuned us on behalf o f a bellicose policy. They are hereby informed that we deplore their procedure and cannot

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