February 22, 1U36

THE TABLET ¿4 Weekly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v iew

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

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

Vol. 167. No. 4998. London, February 22, 1936.

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N e w s a n d N o t e s . . . . . . 2 2 9 Quinquagesima ................. 233 A Red L ig h t ............................ 233 The Ride on the Tiger . . . 234 Libels on Communities . . . 235 “ Myths about M exico” . . . 236 R e v i e w s :

From Buckfast . . . . . . 237 Homo I n s ip i e n s ................. 237 The Iron D u k e ................. 237 Elizabethan 238 The Pasquier Chronicles 239 A Journalist in Russia . . . 240 R i c c i ....................................... 240 New Books and Music . . . 241 Sermons for the Times—

LXX IX ............................ 242

CONTENTS

Slavery in Abyssinia Co r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

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spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 245 Monsignor Butt’s Episcopal

Silver Jubilee ................. 246 The Lourdes Festival at Westminster ................. 246 E t C/e t e r a ..................................2 4 7 The Education Bill . . . 248 From The Tablet of Long

A g o ....................................... 248 Ob i t u a r y ..................................2 4 9 The Hon. Everard Feilding 2 4 9 W i l d ............................................... 2 4 9

The Birmingham Catholic

Reunion ............................ 250 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r :

People’s Mass for Peace 250 “ Shakespeare’s Biblical

Knowledge ”

The Messengers of the

Faith ............................ 250 O r b i s T e r r a r u m :

250

England ............................ 251 Ireland ............................ 251 Austria ............................ 252 Belgium ............................ 252 Canada ............................ 252 Czechoslovakia ................. 252 Egypt ............................ 252 France ............................ 252

O r b i s T e r r arum ( Oontd.) :

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Germany

India

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I r a q .............. .............. 253 I t a l y .............. .............. 253 Mexico .............. 253 Poland .............. 254 Portugal .............. 254 Rumania .............. 254 Spain .............. 254 U.S.A. .............. 254 C h e s s ................. .............. 255 More Edinburgh Violence 256 Crusade of Rescue .............. 256 Co m in g E v e n t s .............. 256 So c i a l a n d P e r s o n a l . . . 256 Books Received .............. 256

NOTANDA Lent. A Passionist Father’s sermon and a very short Tablet article (pp. 233, 242).

Spain’s General Election. Some interim remarks and a warning (p. 233).

Dr. Butt’ s episcopal silver jubilee. A note fo r next Tuesday’s diary space (p. 246).

The Education Bill. In an address at Birmingham the Archbishop o f Westminster re-states the Catholic view (p. 250). Colonel Sir John Shute’ s speech in the House o f Commons (p. 248).

“ Myths about Mexico.” A Southampton newspaper’s unfairness to a cruelly persecuted people (p. 236).

A new book from Buckfast. Abbot Vonier on “ The Spirit and the Bride ” (p. 237).

Slavery in Abyssinia. A welcome letter from the Foreign Office (p. 243).

Libels on communities. Some further citations o f cases in legal annals. A glance at “ Vaughan v. The R ock ” (p. 235).

NEWS AND NOTES N E X T WEDNESDAY is the Day o f the Ashes. To all our readers, we sincerely wish a good Lent and unfailing perseverance.

Because our leader-writer did not heavily put down the loud pedal in The Tablet article on the new Education Bill, certain fire-breathing readers are disappointed with us. We begged for drastic im provements in the Bill but, in the interests of Education, we did not cry out for its utter rejection. It seemed to us that Catholic hostility to the whole Bill should not begin until hope of necessary amendment is ended. For what these amendments must be we refer the public to the speech of Colonel Sir

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John Shute in the House of Commons on Thursday o f last week. A verbatim report appears in this week’s Tablet. That the gallant Colonel’s three chief points are more than his personal opinions is a fair deduction from the fact that the Catholic Education Council, a responsible body, has suggested our printing the Shute speech in its entirety. When Sir John said that he would support the Second Reading but must wait to see “ the shape the Bill takes later ” before promising a continuance of support, he tacitly identified himself with the line taken in The "Tablet's well-considered article ; and therefore we cannot agree with those bellicose correspondents who complain that we were too mild.

A dangerous absurdity which has not received sufficient attention from public men is the theme of this Note. We allude to the fact that communities and whole nations which boast a high degree of political intelligence are still profoundly and often disastrously influenced by the wild acts o f individuals who are known to be irresponsible. Last month, a half-demented young Jew in Switzerland shot a busy agent o f the Nazi regime who was commonly believed to be a persecutor o f the young Jew’s co-religionists. The youth’s insanity was not doubted ; and nobody was able to prove that he had acted at the prompting o f persons with sound minds. Yet Nazidom deliberately resolved to treat a single fanatic’s mad deed as a solid reason for intensifying its anti-Semitic policy, and the Fiihrer himself took a leading part in the funeral of the dead man. Thus was a whole people inflamed, and trouble with a neighbouring Republic was risked, on the strength— we ought to say on the weakness— of an irresponsible youngster’s deed. And hardly had this affair faded out o f the newspapers when another of the same kind came on. Some young bullies in Paris caught sight of M. Blum, the Socialist leader, as he was riding in a friend’s car, and proceeded to maul and batter him in a most cowardly manner. It has not been shown that