October 26, 1935
THE TABLET y l W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM YGBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius I X to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 166. No. 4981. L ondon, October 26, 1935.
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News and Notes . . . Page . . . 521 Help the Pope! . . . 525 The Totalitarianism of
Christus Rex
Adsit Germania
. . . 526
. . . 527
In a Timber-Camp . . . . . . 527 Don Manuel’s Method . . . 528 Rev ie w s :
A Hundred Years of
Italy .............. . . . 529 Marx in Red Light . . . 530 Mary the First . . . . . . 530 Swedenborgian . . . 531 The Apocrypha . . . . . . 531
CONTENTS
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Books Received ................. 532 New Books and Music . . . 532 Sermons for the Times
LXX IY ....................................533 St. Thomas More and the
Papacy ........................ 534 From The Tablet of Long
A g o ....................................... 535 London University Catho
lics : A Note from the Chaplain ........................ 535 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ........................537
The Catholic Medical Guild 538 St. • Barnabas’ Cathedral.
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Nottingham .............. 539 The Liturgical Week . . . 539 ET CiETERA........................... 540
Obituary ................ . . . 541 Orbis Terrarum :
England .............. . . . 542 Ireland .............. . . . 542 Czechoslovakia . . . 543 France .............. . . . 544 Iraq .............. . . . 544 Italy .............. . . . 544 Mexico .............. . . . 545
Orbis Terrarum (C o n td .) :
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Monaco . . . . . . . . . 545 Nigeria ............................ 545 Poland ............................ 545 Spain ............................ 545 Switzerland . . . . . . 545 U.S.A....................................... 545
Public Authorities and
Catholic Poor Law Schools ...................... 546 Coming Events ................... 548 Social and P ersonal . . . 548 Chess ..................... 548
NOTANDA
A request from the H o ly Father: prayers and sacrifices fo r “ a particular intention ” (p. 525).
T o -m orrow ’s Feast o f Christ the King. The Totalitarianism o f this Divine Royalty (p. 526).
“ Sanctions ” Saturday and the Roman Breviary. Monsignor Barnes notes an interesting coincidence (p. 540). ■
“ £300 a \ ear fo r Every Family o f Four.” A hope which may not be realized (p. 524).
Quaint “ Mars.” The latest claimants to primatial and episcopal dignities (p. 523).
Germany and Geneva. A plea fo r her return to the League (p. 527).
The drama in Dublin. A n Irishman’s strong article about the Abbey Theatre (p. 523).
Tw o paintings at Nottingham. A pictorial glimpse o f the new decorations fo r the English Martyrs’ chapel in St. Barnabas’ Cathedral (p. 539).
NEWS AND NOTES W E write these lines while the House of Commons is engaged in a three days’ debate on the foreign policy of what may truly be called our National Government. The debate was opened by Sir Samuel Hoare in a speech which raises still higher the reputation of His Majesty’s Secretary o f State for Foreign Affairs. It is true that all kinds of faults have been found by the Opposition ; but we use the phrase “ all kinds ” deliberately, so as to add that most of the fault-findings are so contradictory as to cancel out. According to some censors of the Government, there has been unwise haste, while according to others the situation has been lamentably worsened by dilly-dallying. Some Members o f the Commons want the Government to be much sharper with Italy, while others think
Britain ought to be milder. Perhaps the most interesting criticism comes from those droll people who peevishly complain that Great Britain pushed herself forward too vigorously at Geneva and bulked too big in the council o f the nations. Not without reason do we call this droll. The men and women from whose lips we hear it are mostly those who are always demanding that Great Britain shall take the lead throughout the world in all sorts ! o f movements and discussions ; yet they bring a rod out of their vinegary pickle and apply it to the backs of Ministers now that our Government j has done the very thing for which their present censors have long been pleading. It is noteworthy that this outcry against British pushfulness at Geneva does not come from the spokesmen of other countries, who would certainly have cried out if they had been hurt. It comes from those queer Britons who are always justifying the true old taunt which ascribes to them the watchword “ My own country must be in the wrong.”
In its leading article on Sir Samuel Hoare's speech, the Daily Telegraph of last Wednesday hit the nail on the head in its very first sentence. “ Inasmuch as the continuance of the War in Abyssinia rests in the hands of Signor Mussolini,” said our contemporary, “ one of the most important passages in the Foreign Secretary’s speech was that in which he made a direct and powerful appeal to Italy.” The article went on to argue that, before economic sanctions are fully applied against Italy, there is a breathing space which, though short, is long enough for II Duce to use in the cause o f Peace. His armies are in possession of Adowa, and also of Aksum, which is more than the Canterbury of old Abyssinia. At other points his military position is such that, in the event of an Armistice, he might ask for concessions or gifts from the Emperor which would save his face with the Italian people and give him some o f the economic advantages which he desires. It is an open secret that Signor Mussolini is being persuaded in this sense by many old friends of Italy, as well as Sir Samuel Hoare
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