THE TABLET

u4 Weekly Newspaper and Review DUM V O B IS G RATULAM U R , ANIMOS ET IAM ADDIM U S UT IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R I S CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to the Tablet, June 4, 1870.

V ol. 138. No. 4,248 L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 8, 19 2 1 .

Prich 6d., by post 7d.

Registered at the General Post Ofpicb as a Newspaper.

C h r o n ic l e o f t h e W e e k :

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The Irish Negotiations: A Conference at Last—The Premier, Public Bodies and Unemployment—Prospects o f the W ashington Conference — A W h ite Australia—The Moplah Rebellion — Communism and Labour—Hungary and the Burgenland—Another Coal-mining Dispute ...................................... 453 T o p ic s :

The Unemployment Problem ••• 456 A Modernist Conference ••• 457 Mission W ork in T ok io ................458 N o t e s ............................................................ 459

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Excursions in T h ou gh t ................461 Shelley and Others ................462 Faith and Charity ••• ••• 462 The People o f England............... 462 Blackie’s S chool B o ok s ................463 A H istory o f Modern Philo­

sophy ......................... ••• 463 The W estm inster Cathedral

Chronicle.............................................. 464 L i t e r a r y N o t e s .................................4 64 Books o f the Week ... ... ... 465 An Archbishop in a Bull R ing ... 465 C h e s s ............................................................466 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) ••• ••• ••• 469

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L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r ;

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A Point o f H istory ................471 The Catholic Confederation and

Socialism ............. ... ... 471 Catholics in the R oya l Navy ••• 471 The “ Demonstratio ” o f Euse­

bius........................ ... ... 471 Dr. G. G. Coulton and

Catholics— ... ..............472 E t G a b t e r a ............. 472 Consecration o f St. Charles’s,

Ogle S t r e e t .................................... 474 The Catholic Confederation ... 474 Blessing o f the Abbot o f Douai— 475 Cardinal Bourne Jubilee Fund ... 475 Retreats fo r the Midlands ... 476

News from the Dioceses « Page Westminster ............. - 477

Southwark — ... ... ... 478 Brentwood ... ... ... 479 Clifton ... 479 Leeds ... ... 479 Liverpool ... .............. ... 479 Northampton ... 480 Nottingham ... .. 480 Plymouth ... ... 480 Portsm 'utii ... 480 Salford ... ... 480 Shrewsbury •• ... 481 W ales:

Cardiff

... ... ... 481

Reunion of Ch“ c ren of Mary ... 481 Marriage ............. ... 482 Social and f krs DEAL ... 482

N O T A N D A

“ To reveal God is not to be God ” : a test by which to try the views of Modern Churchmen on the Divinity of Christ. A statement of Catholic teaching and belief (P- 457)

Can a Catholic be a Socialist? The Catholic Confederation resolution in the negative (p. 474). A correspondent’s view (p. 471). Why the motion is unfortunate (p. 459).

accord ” —a recognition, that is, of Ire . .i s independence and sovereignty, and of her delegates as representatives of an independent and sovereign State. On this point all doubt must be guarded against, for the position of the Government on it is “ fundamental to the existence of the British Empire, and they cannot alter i t .” But the Government were still anxious to make, with the Irish delegates!, ‘ ‘ a determined effort to explore every possibility of settlement by personal discussion,” for they felt that conference, and not correspondence, is the most practical and hopeful way to an understanding. They therefore sent a fresh invitation for a conference in London on October 11,“ where we can meet your delegates as spokesmen of the people whom you represent, with a view to ascertaining how the association of Ireland with the community of nations known as the British Empire may best be reconciled with Irish national aspirations.” The hopes that were raised by this letter were quickly realized. The Prime Minister had found the formula upon which a conference could be held, and Mr. de Valera’s reply was sent to Mr. Lloyd George on Friday. It was a brief message, in which, after repeating the passage setting forth the character and purpose of the conference, Mr. de Valera said : “ Our respective positions have been stated and are understood, and we agree that conference, not correspondence, is the most practical and hopeful way to an understanding. We accept the invitation, and our delegates will meet you in London on the date mentioned, ‘ to. explore every possibility of settlement by personal discussion.’ ” Thus after two. and a half months of conversations and correspondence a conference is at last agreed upon, and the relief thus produced on public opinion in Ireland was increased by the settlement of the costly strike on the Great Southern and Western Railway. Sinn Fein immediately began to make arrangements for the conference, at which its delegates are to be those previously appointed—Mr. Griffith, Mr. Collins, Mr. Barton, Mr. Duggan, and Mr. Gavan Duffy—who may leave Dublin for London on Saturday, in company with a small party of officials. The British representatives were expected to be appointed at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting. t h e p r e m ie r , pu blic f n the course of his, speech on

How the consecration of St. Charles’s Church, Ogle Street, was made possible (p. 474). Other leasehold churches in London (p. 459).

Cardinal Mercier’s tribute to the late Godefroid Kurth, the historian. H is works. How the Germans broke his heart (p. 460).

The Lessons for the Office of Blessed Oliver Plunket. A conflict of authorities. A query from the Bishop of Clifton (p. 471).

An Archbishop in a Bull Ring. How the Archbishop of Birmingham mounted a street pulpit and addressed the crowd, and how he was received (p. 465).

Mr. Belloc wonders why “ ropes have never been worshipped.” A novel test for literary style (p. 473).

C H R O N IC L E OF T H E W EEK

Wi t h the sending, on Thurs­

day in last week, of the a t l a s t . Prime Minister s letter to- Mr. de Valera, the purport of which we have already briefly indicated, there was a great feeling of relief in Great Britain and Ireland. For Mr. Lloyd George seized upon the ground that was common between him and Mr. de Valera, and reiterated his invitation to a conference in which, as the experience of the protracted and largely theoretic correspondence has. shown, lies a more substantial hope of agreement and settlement than in a continued exchange of such letters. Mr. Lloyd George at the outset states that the Government, in spite of their sincere desire for peace, cannot enter a conference on the basis of the correspondence, as it would involve “ a recognition which no British Government can b o d ie s , a n d Tuesday at Inverness, where he u n em plo ym en t . received the freedom of the Highland capital in the Town Hall, Mr. Lloyd George made an important reference to the unemployment question,

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