THE TABLET A W eek ly N ew sp a p e r a n d R e v ie w 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. 156. No. 4,717. London, October 4, 1930.
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News and No t e s ................. 425 Dr. David’s G a f fe ................. 429 The Krasnyi Terror ... 431 From The Tablet of Eighty
Years Ago 433 Ch e s s ....................................... 433 Reviews :
The Angelic Philosopher 434 A Mansion Indeed . . . 434 The Case of Niccolo Machiavelli 435 Below the Long Acre . . . 435 East Anglian Ecclesiology 436 Cavonr at W o r k ................. 438 Outstanding Novels . . . 440
CON Review s ( contd.) :
A Buddhist Classic ... 440 The Sixth Note of the
Church ............................ 442 A Garland for the Maid 442 The Case for +ve Kabbala 444 Gerson for L< beth ... 444 The Age of S a i l ................. 444 New Books and Music ... 446 The Latest Drawing of
Liverpool’s Proposed Cathedral ............................447 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................449
ENTS
The Fifteenth Centenary of
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St. Augustine ................. 450 Coming Events ................. 451 Church Extension in U.S.A. 451 Marriage ............................ 453 Et Ch eterà............................454 Catholic Education Notes 455 Letters to the Editor :
The Catholic Press . . . 456 Obituary ............................ 456 Plymouth Cathedral . . . 458 Ordination at Oscott . . . 458
Orb is Terrarum:
England, Scotland Wales .............. Ireland .............. China .............. Czechoslovakia France .............. Germany .............. India .............. Italy .............. Lithuania .............. Russia .............. Spain .............. Switzerland Books Received Social and P ersonal
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NOTANDA An expected guest. The Primate o f Poland’s imminent visit to Britain. A pen-sketch o f a great Churchman (p. 425).
The Protestant Bishop o f Liverpool’s false step. A Tablet leader-writer deals faithfully with a deplorable affair. What an Anglican paper says o f Dr. Coulton (p. 429).
Spain. Cave redactores. Last Sunday’s Republican mitin (p. 426).
Lord Rothermere’s excuse. The Tablet shows a better way o f keeping Bolshevism out o f Europe (p. 425).
“ It moves.” Yet one more proof that nonCatholics are discovering the falsity o f charges against the Church in respect o f Nullity Decrees (p. 428).
Dr. Welldon answers “ Free Church ” complaints against the Lambeth Conference o f 1930 (p. 427).
Liverpool Cathedral. The latest drawing o f the exterior as proposed (p. 447).
In nearly thirty columns o f print the publishers advertise their new wares and The Tablet’s reviewers pass judgment upon many books (pp. 434446).
NEWS AND NOTES
A /T OST respectfully do we greet Cardinal Augustus I ’ ’ I Hlond, Archbishop of Poznan-Gniezno and Primate of Poland, who is due to arrive in London before another number of The Tablet can appear. Although he has not yet completed his fiftieth year, this learned and zealous Salesian is already known as one of the ablest men in the Church to-day. His range of activity has been prodigious. Cardinal Hlond has both organized a quite new diocese (Katowice, of which he was made the first Bishop at a time of enormous political difficulty), and has also not been above the personal running of soup
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kitchens for the very poor. He is a scholar, a musician and, above all else, a pastor with a magnetic influence upon his people. With the Sovereign Pontiff His Eminence maintains a personal friendship which began when His present Holiness was Nuncio to Poland in the perplexing and even perilous times after the War. Cardinal Hlond’s motto is the Salesian Da mihi animas ; cetera tolle : “ Give me souls and take away all else.” He is coming here to return the visit paid to him by our own Primate— we may use the word this time, although it is not strictly in order— the Cardinal of Westminster ; and the Poles of London are taking advantage of their illustrious compatriot’s presence among us to gild with extra lustre the opening of a new Polish church in Devonshire Street, Islington. The inaugural ceremony, at which Cardinal Hlond will both pontificate and preach, is fixed for Sunday morning, October 12. We join with our Polish brethren in offering a cordial welcome to the Prince of Holy Roman Church whom they so deeply love and whom we so highly respect.
When a speaker, knowing that the ears of a hundred million persons are straining to catch his words, uses such expressions as “ I state this categorically ” and “ I say that openly,” it is foolish to plead that his most grave declarations are to be dismissed as empty rhetoric. Yet this is the line taken by the Daily Mail in its attempt to mitigate Lord Rothermere’s latest blunder. One of the things which Herr Adolf Hitler has just said “ openly ” and with emphasis is that his Nazis intend to give Germany a new Supreme Court and that, when such a Court has been constituted, “ heads will roll in the sand ” ; namely, the heads of those who, in 1918, established the present order of things in nach-Kaiser Germany. On this, the Mail says
No sensible person takes seriously his talk at Leipzig about cutting off heads. This was clearly a rhetorical flourish, meant as a retort to political enemies who were charging him with high treason.
