November 30, 1935
THE TABLET A W eek ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v ie w
DDM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEBTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 166. No. 4986. London, November 30, 1935.
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News and No t e s ................. 685 A Happy New Year . . . 689 Toujours L ’Audace! . . . 689 The Communist Inte r-
national Goes Cultural ... 690 E p isco pal Engagements 692 R e v ie w s :
A Strange Choice . . . 692 The Christian Challenge 692 A Book from Finland ... 693
The Friar and the Poet 693 Miss Dale’ s Latest ... 694 “ A. E.” 694 “Precious Juiced
Flowers ”
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New Books and Music ... 695 Books Received ................. 696 The Letters of Hilarion—
X V I ....................................... 696 From The Tablet of Long
A g o ....................................... 697 A dvent P astorals :
Cardiff ............................ 697 Menevia ............................ 698 Society of St. Gregory ... 699 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’ s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 701
University Catholic Societies’
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Federation......................... 703 Belgium
Orbi s Terrarum (Contd.)
E t C.e t e r a .................................. 704 Cuba
O b i t u a r y .................................. 705 France
The Catholic Missionary
Society ......................... 706 I t a l y ..............
A Catholic Psychological
Society ......................... 707 Poland
The Empire’s Airway Exhi
Germany
Mexico
Spain tion .............. . . . ... 707 Tristan da Cunha 710 The Converts’ Aid Society 707 U.S.A. 711 O r b i s T e r r a r u m : Venezuela ... 711
England ......................... 708 W i l l s ................
Ireland ......................... 708 Coming Events
Albania ......................... 708 Social and P ersonal .. 712 A r g e n t in a ......................... 708 C h e s s . . . 712
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NOTANDA A long list o f new Cardinals. The names, and brief biographies, o f twenty prelates whom the Sovereign Pontiff is elevating to the Sacred College (p. 701).
Advent. Tw o Pastorals from W ales (pp. 697-8). A Tablet leader-writer mentions the liturgical New Year o f the Church (p. 689).
More about candidatures fo r Parliament. H ow three families ran twelve candidates, o f whom nine gained seats in the House o f Commons (p. 689).
Tw o episcopal anniversaries. The week’s occasions fo r thanksgiving in Portsmouth and in Leeds (p. 704).
Chinese A rt at Burlington House. A Letter from “ H ilarion ” (p. 696).
Lord Tyrrell as Censor o f Films. A praiseworthy appointment (p. 687).
A rt as the handmaid o f Marxism. This week’s Exhibition in London (p. 690).
An overflow ing interest in the wTork o f the Catholic M issionary Society. Tw o enthusiastic meetings, at Westminster, where one had been intended (p. 706).
The Kulturkampf in Germany. A trustworthy friend o f The Tablet tells the true story (p. 709).
NEWS AND NOTES P ARLIAM ENT is “ at this tim e assembled ” ; and all o f us must pray as well as hope that the divine guidance which is conventionally asked for during its sessions may indeed be plentifully bestowed. At home, there is a state o f things which might easily take such a turn for the worse as to entangle econom ic urgencies with political jealousies. Abroad, we are only at the beginning o f the difficulties in which our stand for covenants and pacts inevitably places us. On the first day o f the new
N ew S eries. Vol. CXXXIV. No. 4385.
Parliament’s life, when all Parties harmoniously concurred in the election o f a Speaker, it was seen that animosities can easily be suspended. What we want is a public life in which the normal atmosphere o f discussion will be free from factiousness. Cleavages in political and economic thought cannot reasonably be denied ; but most o f the nation’s business is such as could be done in a National rather than a Party spirit, and the sharp clashes could be few, and far between.
Japanese forces have made moves in Northern China which would be definite acts o f war if we could be sure that China still exists in a sense relevant to the problem as com monly stated. What the Japanese say is that the end of the Empire has turned out to be also the end o f China as the world used to know that once vast and m ighty Power. The capital has been transferred from Northern China to Nanking ; and, further to the South, there is a Canton Government which recognizes Nanking only with large reserves o f autonomy. We must remember that the Northern Provinces, which lie just on our side o f the Great Wall, adjoin Manchukuo, now an independent State with an Emperor o f that Manchu Dynasty which long ruled an immense and illustrious China. What we need to know is whether the people o f those Provinces, though belonging to historic and intra-mural China Proper, have lost faith in Nanking and would prefer Peking to become rather more than a Northern Canton, looking eastward towards Manchukuo and Japan for aid in recuperation. I f it be true, on the other hand, that the movement for autonomy in the five Provinces has no popular support, and that it is a sham got up b y Tokyo for purposes o f Japanese aggrandizement, then the judgment o f the world must be plainly uttered and ways must be found of reminding Japan that, although she has walked out o f the League o f Nations, she is still a Kellogg signatory and is bound also b y the new international conceptions of justice.
