THE TABLET A W eek ly N ew s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM V O B I S GRATULAMUR AN IM O S E T IA M ADDIM US UT IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R I S CONSTANTER M AN EAT IS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 156. No. 4,712. London, A ugust 30, 1930.
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News and No t e s ................. 265 “ Three Bishops Went Sail
ing ”
Hucbald (d. 9 3 0 ) ............... 271 Review s :
269
Abbot Butler’ s Essays . . . 272 The Truth about the In
quisition ............................ 272 Stuart History in Private
Correspondence.................273 Experiments in Communism .............. . . . 273
CONTENTS
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Books Received ................. 274 Coming Events ................. 274 New Books and Music . . . 274 Catholic Education Notes . . . 275 In Honour of St. Felix . . . 276 Obituary ............................ 278 St. Bernard, Doctor . . . 278 Letters to the Ed it o r :
The League of Nations . . . 279 The Bromley Bye-Election 279 Merrion S q u a r e ................. 279
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Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
Page spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 281 The Friars’ M i n o r ..........283 The People’ s Armies . . . 283 From The Tablet of Eighty
Years A g o .....................284 Ch e s s ................................285 Et C e t e r a .......................2 86 St. Imre of Hungary . . . 287 Orbis Terrarum :
England, Scotland, and Wales ............................ 288
Orris Trrrarum (C eñid.):
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Belgium ............................ 289 China ............................ 289 Colombia ............................ 290 France ............................ 290 Greece ............................ 291 Palestine ............................ 291 Poland ............................291 Spain ............................ 291 U.S.A....................................... 292 Yugo-Slavia .................292 Social and Personal . . . 292 W i l l ....................................... 292
NOTANDA
H ow Dr. Major, Principal o f Ripon Hall and “ Modern Churchman,” has given fresh currency to an oft-disproved falsehood about the Papacy. A demand fo r p roof (p. 267).
Trouble in Peru. A Tablet Note-writer states the true reason fo r ex-President Leguia’ s fall from power (p. 265). Hucbald. Mr. Maginty’s correction o f some common errors (p. 271).
A Methodist Times “ in terview ” compels The Tablet to abandon its reticence concerning the visit o f three Anglican Bishops to Malta. An indelicacy which contributed to Malta’s troubles (p. 269).
About the People’ s Armies in China, which are hoisting Communism with its own petard (p. 283).
Budapest’s Emerician festivities. A n illustrated report (p. 287).
The new appointments in the English Province o f the Franciscan Friars Minor. A full and official list (p. 283).
N E W S A N D N O TE S
JDERU has come suddenly into the news. Her -*■ remarkable President Leguia is no longer the Peruvian Chief-of-State. A revolutionary stroke has driven him from power, and, as we write this Note, he is a fugitive from what seems to be mob violence rather than a decent movement against him. The warship which was bearing him to another land has been ordered back to Peruvian waters by one of the insurrectionary leaders ; and there is talk of bringing the ex-President to trial on a varied indictment such as is usual in these cases. Some days must elapse before we can know certainly how far the fall o f Leguia represents a truly popular movement, and how far it has been engineered by seekers after power and place.
As President Leguia was a thorough-going Catholic, whose deeply religious utterances have often been reported on our “ Orbis Terrarum ” pages, there are already shouts of glee to be heard from anti-clericals in Europe, not excepting our own country. It is being suggested that the brave and enlightened Peruvian people are too high-spirited to endure the rule of a Papist any longer, and that the events of the week-end are to be regarded as a manly throwing-off of a Popish yoke. Nothing could be more ridiculous. Señor Leguia has sat in the chief seat of the national life for eleven years, which is some years too long. He has made the mistake which many other Presidents in many other Republics have made before him. That is to say, he has so out-stayed his welcome as to ju stify the complaint that a Dictatorship has superseded the democratic institutions for which the people have fought and suffered. But it is nonsense to drag in religion as an explanation of what has happened. When our own Mr. Lloyd George, after wielding unprecedented power during the later war-years and the first peace-years, suddenly became unacceptable to the British people and was succeeded by a Conservative Premier, nobody was so silly as to say that the religion of the Welsh Salems and Bethesdas had become abominable in Bi itish nostrils. And in the days when W. E. Gladstone had to make way for political antagonists and to be content with the leadership of the Opposition, nobody argued that there was a sturdy national revolt against the High Anglicanism which Gladstone favoured. Our readers will therefore do well to be on their guard against telegrams and articles in which the Peruvian unrest is attributed to religious and irreligious factors.
According to its own figures the English Churchman received last week four and thirty “ Letters to the Editor.” Only six of these were printed. Among them, under the bold heading “ Re Bromley By-E lection ,” was this one :■—
Sir ,— May I ask you to give publicity to the fact that
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