January 4, 1936

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 ADDIMUS UT IN INCCERTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

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

V o l . 167. No. 4991.

L o n d o n , J a n u a r y 4, 1936.

S i x p e n c e .

R egistered at the General P ost Office as a Newspaper.

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News and No t e s .............. 1 The Red Cross .............. 5 Parvum in M u l t o .............. 5 The “ Thirty-Sixes " . . . 7 From The Tablet of Long

A g o ..................................... 8 R eview s :

Adowa .......................... 9 The Psalter .............. 10 “ Doctor Orationis ” . . . 10 William of Ockham . . . 10 Premature Report . . . 11 New Books and Music . . . 12

CONTENTS

Letters to the Editor :

Broadcasting and the and the U.S.S.R.

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Page Orbis Terrarum :

“ Ad Catholici Sacerdotii

Austria .............. . . . 23

Liturgy ......................... 12 Fasti gium ” .............. 2Û Brazil .............. . .. 24 The Rosary during Mass 12 Canada .............. . .. 24 The British Drama League

14 Coming Events .............. 20 France .............. Hungary .............. . . . 24 . .. 24

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Obituary ......................... 14 Et C.e t e r a ......................... 21 India .............. Mexico .............. ... 24 . .. 24 W i l l .................................... 15 St. John’s Cathedral, Salford 22 Poland . .. 26 . .. 26 The Catholic Press ExhibiSpain ..............

tion .................................... 15 Episcopal Engagements 22

U.S.A......................... ... 26

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Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Correspondent’s Weekly Letter

Orbis Terrarum:

England ......................... 22

Examination Results ... 28

from) ......................... 17 Scotland ......................... 23 C lIE SS......................... . . . 28

NOTANDA Christmas Eve at the Vatican. A translation in full o f the H o ly Father’s address (p. 17). A note on the new Encyclical (p. 20).

Italy’ s airmen and the Red Cross. Tw o reasons why events at Dessie and near Dolo are especially grievous to Catholics (p. 5).

Converts to the Faith in England and Wales. A Tablet leader-writer examines the figures and their lessons (p. 5).

A “ tranquil island ” or a volcano beginning to rumble? Germany to-day (p. 1).

Mexico. H ow a Catholic priest, dressed as a layman, investigated the persecution o f Religion (p. 24)

The Rosary during Mass. Some interesting letters on a decree o f Pope Leo X I I I (p. 12).

Occurrences in the “ Thirty-Sixes.” Many centenaries noted in a compilation covering the course o f Christian history (p. 7).

Some Catholics in the Honours List (p. 21).

NEWS AND NOTES A ¡.THOUGH a decrease in Unemployment has given optimists a cheerful tune to play, we cannot look forward into the New Year without dread. Ita ly ’s disdain, in 1935, of the world’s opinion, may bring dire consequences in 1936 for others as well as herself. In Germany, the Nazis are boasting that the Third Reich is envied b y other nations as “ a tranquil island of external and internal peace,” although everybody knows that it is a Hawaii where a volcano may erupt at any moment. Spain, under an undemocratic President with a bias against Catholic statesmen, may become a theatre of new strife. And over the Far East clouds hang heavy.

New Series. Vol. CXXXV. No. 4390.

Successive Christmas Days are milestones on the road of radiotelephony’s progress. When the British Broadcasting Corporation conceived the happy arrangement o f an Empire Family Reunion, with our beloved King as house-father and chief spokesman, the messages from remote parts of the Commonwealth were more pleasant in their fraternal feeling than in their acoustics. The cheery person who told us that it was a fine summer day in South Africa and Australia sounded like an angry oracle fulminating menaces amidst the rattle and crackle of thunder or the turmoil of a tropical storm. But each year brings an improvement. If the good Scotsman who contributed to the Family Party was less intelligible to some o f us than would have been a Boer farmer speaking Cape Dutch, this was the Caledonian’s own doing, and must not be blamed on his fellow-countryman, Sir John Reith. Unless calamities beyond the dreams of fear are to put back civilization, our children may hope to eat their turkey (which, in a sense other than Keats’ , is an Immortal Bird) in dining-rooms to which television will bring great wall-pictures of summer seas breaking on golden beaches at the very moment when snow-flakes are whirling against English windowpanes. The almost boundless possibilities of “ Wireless ” make it the duty of every good citizen to treat the new B.B.C. Charter as one of this New Year’s most important problems.

When the master of a storm-shattered ship finds that more water is coming in through the leaks and holes than is going out through the pumps, he knows that he must either stop the inpour or take to the boats. Mr. J. G. McDonald, who has just resigned his position as “ High Commissioner for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany,” knows this. During two strenuous years, he and his colleagues have found homes for all save 15,000 or so of the 80,000 persons driven out o f the Third Reich by the Nazi Terror ; but the racial legislation which was rushed through the Extraordinary Session o f the Reichstag, held in Nuremberg last