THE TABLET
A Weekly Newspaper and DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to the Tablet, June 4, 1870.
V o l . 138. No. 4,237 L o n d o n , J u l y 23, 1 9 2 1 .
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C h ronicle of th e W e e k :
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Imperial Parliament: Housing Policy—Dr. Addison Resigns— The Middle E ast: Mr. Asquith’s Critioism — Mr. Churchill's Reply — A Government Defeat— France and Upper Silesia — The Irish Negotiations: Informal Talks — Sir James Craig’s Satisfaction--A Cabinet Meeting—Licensing and Health Statistics— A New Licensing Bill ... ............................. 97 T opics :
The Cambridge Congress •• 100
C O N T EN T S
Topics continued :—
The Reformation before the
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Reformation ...........................101 Notes — —102 R eviews :
Canon Sheehan’s Sermons ... 104 The South Sea Bubble ••• ••• 104 Passages from French Litera
ture — .........................105 The Dublin Review ••• •••105 The Catholic Gazette ................106 L iterary Notes 106 Books o f the Week ... — •••108 Resolution by the Catl^lic Edu
cation Council
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Ch e s s ..................................................... 108 The St. Jerome Centenary : Con
gress at Cambridge ••• ... I l l Correspondence :
Rome—(From Our Own Corre
spondent)...............................119 L etters to the E ditor :
The Bible Congress and a New
Version ... ... ... ... 120 Penzance Corpus Christi Fair 120 Musical Training at Besford
Court .......... ... ... 121 W i l l ......................................................121 E t Cæ t e r a ....................................... 122
N ew s from th e D iocesks i Page Westminster ... ... ... 123
Southwark ... ... ... ... 123 Plymouth ... ... 124 Brentwood ... ... ... ... 124 Nottingham .............. Scotland : ... 124
D unkeld........................ ... 124 Catholic Teachers in Council ... 124 The Catholic Women’s League and Divorce
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S chool C r ic k e t ............... ... 128 School Prize Days ... 128 O b it u a r y ... 128 S ocial and P ersonal ... 128
N O T AN D A All about the Cambridge Congress, its services, social functions and meetings (pp. 111-118). The Bishop of Clifton defines its purpose (p. 112).
Papers on Catholic exegesis, the Church and the Bible, Inspiration, the Mosaic Law, the Organized Church in the New Testament, St. Jerome the Interpreter, Christ in the New Testament, the Prophets, the Genesis of a Myth and a Canaanite city (pp. 112 et seq.).
Cardinal Gasquet tells of the methods pursued in the revision of the Vulgate. How nearly 40,000 photographs of MSS. have been taken : some old English Biblical texts (p. 115).
The Authorized Version for Catholic use? Canon Barry’s opening address. A free and interesting discussion (p. 117). A letter from Mr. Bernard Holland (p. 120).
The text of the “ Three W itn esses.” Father Lattey explains four important points, and shows that Catholic scholars may and do treat it as an interpolation (p. 116).
The Reformation before the Reformation. Mgr. Moyes explains the Wickliffite heresy : its two great denials— the Papacy and the Sacrifice of the Mass. How it was dealt with (p. 101).
A statement by the Catholic Education Council on the Archbishop o f ’ ’Canterbury’s speech reviving Mr. Fisher’s proposals for the removal of the dual system in education (pp. 102, 108).
CH RONICLE OF TH E WEEK]
ADDISON RESIGNS. T
HOUSING POLICY— OR.
h e present housing policy of the Government, outlined in a statement by Sir Alfred Momd, the Minister of Health, to the House of
Commons on Thursday of last week, shows reductions in expenditure which have been held by Dr. Addison to constitute a breach of faith, in particular to ex-Service men, in reg-ard to pledges made at the time of the last General. Election and subsequently, and on this ground he has resigned his office of Minister without Portfolio, and left the Government. The House on Thursday had
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before it both points of view— the Government case as set out in Sir Alfred Mond’s statement, and Dr. Addison’s protest in the form o f his letter of resignation to the Prime Minister, which he read by leave of the House. The present position, said Sir Alfred Mond, is that under the housing scheme for local authorities and public utility societies, about 176,000 houses have been built or are building o r contained in approved tenders; whilst 23,000 have been built or are to be built under the scheme of subsidy to private builders. The annual cost to the State under the former scheme is about £ 10,000,000, and ^5,000,000 is required for subsidies to private builders. The Government scheme, he continued, would absorb all available labour for at least twelve months, by the end of which time prices might be stabilised. Very g rave financial difficulties confronted the nation, and the Government had decided that, at any rate for the time being, certain limitations must be placed on housing expenditure. The houses tot be constructed by local authorities or public utility societies would be limited to 176,000— the number already built, building, or for which tenders had been approved. In the scheme of subsidy to private builders payment in full would he made in the case of houses completed by April 23 last, and additional houses would be subsidised only if begun before July 1, under a certificate or promised certificate by a local authority. The Government were prepared to pay an annual contribution not exceeding £200,000 towards the deficiency on local authorities’ accounts for the improvement of slum areas. Mr. Chamberlain announced later that the House would have an opportunity of discussing the housing question on the following Thursday, both as toi England and Scotland. - t h e m id d l e e a s t : When the House afterwards went m r . a s q u i t h ’ s into Committee of Supply, in c r i t ic i s m . respect of the Colonial vote, Mr. Asquith dealt at some length with the position in Palestine and Mesopotamia. The hopeful character of Mr. Churchill’s view regarding the Middle East, he said, depended upon the realisation of a number of assumptions which were still on the knees of the gods. The mandate for Mesopotamia was nothing more than of purely provisional validity : under the Treaty of Sèvres we had no leg'al right at that moment to be in the country ; and as far as he knew we had no. strategic interest of any sort or kind in Mesopotamia. Whether
