March 14, 1936

THE TABLET ^4 Weekly N ew spaper a n d R ev iew

DUM V O B IS GRATULAMUR AN IM O S ET IA M ADDIMUS UT IN IN C C E PT IS V E S T R I S CONSTANTER MANEATIS

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

Vol. 167. No, 5001.

London, March 14, 1936.

Sixpence.

R eg is t er ed at th e Generad P ost Of f ic e as a New s pa p er .

New s and Notes . . . Page . . . 325 Seven D a y s ................ . . . 329 A "b re a ch of Prom ise . . . 329 The S ie u r Croulle on I r ish

News ................ . . . 330 F ran c e a t P r a y e r . . . . . . 332 Religion in Mexico . . . . . . 333 Re v ie w s :

J a n s e n i s m ................ . . . 334 An H ib e rn ia n T rio . . . 334 F o r P a s to rs ................... 335 Monsieur V in cent . . . 336 The B ran gw yn S ta tions 336 The Philosophy of V a lue 337 A M a r ita in fo r Smaller

P u r se s ................................3 37

CONTENTS

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New Books and Music . . . 337 L enten P astorals :

Liverpool ................................ 338 Leeds ................................33 9 Correspondence :

Rome (O u r Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly L e tte r from ) ................................3 41 Coming E v ents ................... 342 The Teaching P ro fession . . . 342 Education. The Conference of 1931 343 M aintenance Scholarships in A rch ite c tu re ................... 343 E t Cæ t e r a ................................ 344 Obituary ................................ 345 “ The Spanish Jeru sa lem ” 346

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A g o ............................................ 346 L etters to the E d i t o r :

B enediction d u r in g L en t 346 “ A lum n i C antabrigienses ” 346 Fam ily Allowances and

Children as Wagee a rn e rs ................................3 47 London M a tricu lation

R esults ................................3 47 P iu s IX and th e Unifica­

tio n of I ta ly ................... 347 O rd in a tio ns ................................34 7 W i l l ............................................ 347

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England ................ . . . 348 I r e la n d ................ . . . 348 Belgium ................ . . . 348 B u lg a r ia ................ . . . 348 C anada ................ . . . 349 Czechoslovakia . . . 349 E a s t A frica . . . 349 F ran c e ................ . . . 349 Malta ................ . . . 350 Mexico ................ . . . 350 Po r tu g a l ................ . . . 350 South A frica . . . 350 Spain ................ . . . 350 W est A frica . . . 350 Books Received . . . 352 Ch e s s ............................ . . . 352

NOTANDA

The Rhineland Zone. Another German Breach of Promise (p. 329).

Religion in Mexico. A temperate statement of the actual position (p. 333).

Further extracts from the Lenten pastorals. The Archbishop of Liverpool on the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ; and the Bishop o f Leeds on the sanctity of the marriage contract (pp. 338-9).

Sacrilege and arson in Spain. More churches burned. Some notes on Elche, “ the Spanish Jerusalem ” (pp. 346, 350).

The Conference on Education in 1931. A clarifying correspondence (p. 343).

Education in ancient Greece. In a tribute to the teaching profession, Dr. Downey turns to the classics and finds a dual system recorded on the authority o f Xenophon (p. 342).

Lent moves on. A Tablet leader-writer exhibits some of next week’s liturgical treasures (p. 329).

Concerning Cromwell’s deeds at Drogheda. More light from the Sieur Croulle and other contemporary sources (p. 330).

NEWS AND NOTES

TT ERE in London, the imperial city of a Power which is a guarantor of the Locarno Agreements, statesmen are assembled for one of the most momentous discussions in living memory. By the time these lines appear in print, much more than we know while writing them will be known by those who read them. I t is a time for prudence, and, above all, for prayer.

Politics on the grand scale threaten to dominate Parliament for many a day. Experience reminds

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us th a t , during such times of preoccupation, other interests may suffer. Measures are rushed through the Legislature without adequate discussion and arbitrary changes are wrought by orders-in-Council. We beg plain citizens, as well as Members of Parliament, to be vigilant. The Education Bill especially must be watched. As for broadcasting, we have felt uneasy for some tim e about the new Charter. There is hardly any public duty more important just now than the placing of the B.B.C. on the right basis and under the right men. Lord Ullswater’s Report is promised for Monday.

There is joy among British anti-Catholics at the prospect of the Catholic “ C. E. D. A.” losing its claim to be the largest P a r ty in th e new Cortes. They rely on a fusion of the Unión Republicana with the Izquierda Republicana. But, although “ Izquierda ” means “ Left,” it is to be remembered th a t the two groups which may amalgamate next week are what are called bourgeois parties and are certainly not extremist. Indeed, it would be roughly though not precisely true to say th a t they resemble those once powerful British Liberals who worked with Radicals in opposition to the Church of England’s influence and privileges but were Tory-minded and Tory-hearted in their own way. During last month’s electioneering in Spain, the Union, under Señor Martinez Barrio, stultified and even disgraced itself by joining a miscalled “ Popular Front ” partly consisting of men whose antecedents, programmes and atheistical connections ought to have made them abhorrent to good Spaniards ; and the Izquierda did the same. But it is laughable when superficial anti-Papists in our own country exult over what th ey imagine to be the coming eclipseof “ C.E.D A.” by an Izquierda-Unión “ deal.” If there were no business for Cortes to transact except anti-clerical measures against religious education and church prerogatives, the outlook for Catholics would be b lack; but the new Prime Minister’s task is not so simple as th a t . His electioneering allies of last month want much more