January 11, 1936
THE TABLET
A W eekly N e w s p a p e r and R e v ie w
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONOTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 167. No. 4992. London, January i i , 19 3 6 .
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News and Notes
To-morrow’s F east
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H ypocrisy’s N igh t O u t . . . 37 E p p u r si Muovel 38 A Publish in g E xperim en t in P o l a n d ............................ 39 F rom The Tablet
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CONTENTS
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“ Lum en in Ccelo ” . . . 41 A n “A u thorized ” Im i ta tio 43 F o r “ F r ie n d s of the
U .S .S .R .” 43 D r . W in n in g to n -In g ram 43 New Books and Music . . . 44 Books Received ................ 44 Encyclical L e tte r ................ 45 Obituary ............................. 48 Correspondence :
Rome (O u r Own Corre
spondent’sWeekly L e tte r from ) ............................. 51
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Ch e s s ............................. 52 Two S ta tu es a t St. George’s 53 Social W o rk fo r Women and G i r l s ................ 53 The New B ishop of C algary 53 E t CiETERA................ 54 Sermons fo r the Times—
LX X Y II ............................ 55 The Catholic Teachers’ Con
ference ............................. 56 Orb i s Terrarum:
E n g lan d ............................. 58 I r e la n d ............................. 58
Or b is Terrarum
B elgium
C entral A frica
China
Czechoslovakia
F rance
In d ia
Mexico
P o la nd
Spain
Sw itz e rla nd ...
Yugoslavia . . .
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W il l s
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Social and P ersonal . . . 64
NOTANDA An instalment in English of the new Papal Encyclical on the Priesthood (p. 45).
Another taunt at the Pope. A few words for Dr. Berry, Moderator of the Evangelical Free Churches (p. 37).
“ It moves.” How a vigilant defensive has countered sundry offensives against the Church (p. 38).
The Son and His Mother. A pastoral instruction, by the Bishop of Middlesbrough, on devotion to Our Lady (p. 55).
Poland. A large-scale and successful experiment in popular Catholic journalism (p. 39).
The Catholic Teachers’ Conference. A survey of the Education question in the course of an address by the Archbishop of Liverpool (p. 56).
More about Mexico from the American priest who toured the country en laique (p. 60).
London’s religious sculpture. The statues of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More from St. George’s Cathedral (p. 53); and how St. George is shortly to be honoured in St. Marylebone (p. 54).
NEWS AND NOTES
O statements concerning Catholic acquiescence ^ or non-acquiescence in the Government’s new Education proposals should be heeded other than those made by or on behalf of the Hierarchy. The Bill is to be issued during the present month; and Catholics may rest assured that they will not have long to wait for authoritative guidance.
The Land of the Dollar is also the Land of Paradoxes. When it was announced the other day that the illegality of the “ New Deal ” had been established in the highest law-courts of the Union, stocks and shares began to soar, and Wall Street went wild over a “ prosperity boom.” On the face
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of it, lookers-on would have expected such a shattering blow to the Administration to be followed by chagrin and depression. But the Deal’s restrictions and taxes were such as to cramp the kind of Finance which is not always true Prosperity’s friend ; and this explains a boom which is artificial. In President Roosevelt’s message, there occurred passages about neutrality which were hastily described by the Daily Mail as having relieved and satisfied Signor Mussolini. A closer examination of them shows that, on the contrary, they are a precious contribution to collective peace-keeping. In the past, the U.S.A. have held a doctrine of the freedom of the sea which stood in the way of effective measures against an aggressor. Henceforth, unless we are mistaken in our interpretation of the message to Congress, private persons or firms in the U.S.A. who may try to supply munitions or anything else which is useful in war to a belligerent will have no protection from the Washington Government for the cargo. This means that, in the deplorable event of a blockade of Italian ports by the League Powers (which Heaven forbid), a tanker laden with oil from the U.S.A., could be turned away from Italy’s European or East African littoral by the League’s vessels without any fear of reprisals or even protests from Washington. Practically, though not in theory, the new procedure of the U.S.A. can make the States collaborators with the League nations in cutting short a war by holding up supplies.
Although II Duce does not allow his followers to know the other side of the dispute with Abyssinia, we in England want everybody to learn the facts and arguments all round. Therefore The Tablet acquaints its readers to-day with the launching of a new weekly, called the British-Italian Bulletin (15, Greek Street, London, W.l, price twopence), a copy of which is just now spread out on our table. For precision’s goodly sake, we add that it is No. 8. Some of the contents, such as Mr. Ezra Pound’s egoistic exercise in uselessness and Mr. Herbert Vivian’s overdone smartness about “ a foolish mock
