THE TABLET
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DUM V O B I S GRATULAMUR AN IM O S E T IA M ADDIM U S UT IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R I S CON STAN TER M AN EATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pins IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 155. No. 4,701. L ondon, June 14, 1930.
Sixpence.
R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N e w s p a p e r
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New s and No t e s ...................7S5 Much Ado ............................ 789 The Aquinas Society . . . 790 Blessed John Southworth :
New Evidence ................. 790 At N azareth............................ 792 R e v ie w s :
The In ca rn a t io n ................. 794 “ Jubus ” 794 M. Lepin’s L a test................. 795 A Great English Mystic . . . 796 Books Received ................. 796 New Books and Music . . . 797
C O N T E N T S
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Prior P a r k .................... 798 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................801 From The Tablet of Eighty
Years A g o .................... 802 Et Ce t e r a ...................... 803 Society of St. Gregory . . . 804 Ch e s s .................................. 804 Catholic Education Notes . . . 805 Catholic Young Men’s
Society ............................ 806
Coming E vents ................S06 Or b is T errarum :
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England, Scotland and Wales . . . 807 Ireland . . . 808 Austria . . . 808 Brazil . . . 809 China . . . 809 Colombia . . . 809 France . .. 80S I t a l y .............. . . . 809 Morocco . . . 810 Palestine . . . 910
Or b is Terrarum (Contd.) :
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Poland ............................ 810 Portugal ............................ 810 South Africa ................. 810 Tunisia ............................ 810 Uganda ............................ 810 U.S.A....................................... 812 Yugo-Slavia ................. 812 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 812 L etter to the Ed it o r :
The Relies of Blessed John
Southworth ................. 812 Tercentenary Celebrations at
Princethorpe Priory . . . 812
NOTANDA
Malta. A Tablet leader-writer offers some interim remarks on the situation. W h y the Intelligent Foreigner is puzzled (p. 789). Maltese loyalty calumniated at the microphone (p. 787).
A hundred years o f Catholic association with Prior Park. The centenary celebration; with illustrations o f the College and its grounds (pp. 798-9). A glance at the earlier history o f the great house (p. 803).
The Rev. A . B. Purdie adduces new evidence in the case o f Blessed John Southworth, from transcripts preserved in the Public Record Office (p. 790). A correspondent’s interesting letter on the same subject (p. 813).
A further examination, by The Tablet’s Educational Correspondent, o f the new Education Bill. Some drastic amendments which have been tabled fo r the Committee stage (p. 805).
The Society o f St. Gregory’s fourth School o f Plainsong (p. 804).
By way o f renewed reminder. T o Paris fo r the Feast o f SS. Peter and Paul : a note fo r many diaries (p. 803).
NEWS AND NOTES
A BU LKY Blue-book issued on Tuesday made public the first part o f the Report of the Indian Statutory Commission— the Simon Commission, to give that body its more popular name— eagerly awaited, and since its issue no less eagerly quoted and discussed throughout the Empire. The second half of the Report is to appear on June 24 ; and it will then be time enough to comment upon the Commission’s work and findings as a whole. Meanwhile it is to be noted that the representatives of all three political parties constituting the Commissioners have arrived at a unanimous report : “ Our Report,”
N ew Series. Vol. CXXIII. No. 4,100.
they say, " is unanimous on all fundamental matters, and will be found to be without dissenting minute.” This being so, it can be regarded as of distinctly good augury that Indian extremists find the Report so little to their liking that the Nationalist Bombay Chronicle can write o f the Commission as “ insulting ” India ; whereas moderate Liberal opinion in the country credits the Commissioners with sympathy and fairness.
Although this first volume is concerned almost entirely with historical, statistical, . and other informative matter, Indian Nationalism is inclined to read between the lines and discount the second volume in advance as likely to contain only unacceptable proposals. A wiser course would be to “ wait and see ” The Commissioners themselves give a cogent reason for having a short gap in time between the publication o f Volume I, the “ Survey,” and Volume II in which their recommendations and conclusions will be set forth :
The problems connected with the future constitutional development of India are of such complexity and importance that we are unwilling to see our proposals for their treatment thrown into the arena of discussion and controversy before there has been time to examine and digest the survey of the present position on which our recommendations are based, and in the light of which we believe them to be justified. If the account we have given in Volume I is just and fair, we believe that our recommendations in Volume II will be found to be wise and necessary. Among the most significant paragraphs in the first volume are those, towards the close, in which it is recognized that all educated Indians hold in common a sympathy with the demand for equal status with Europeans, and a belief in self-determination for India ; and, it is added, “ the British people, so long accustomed to self-government, are bound to sympathize with this movement, even though they may deplore some of its manifestations.”
Speaking at Dijon the other day, M. Tardieu made the customary pronouncement on policy
