THE TABLET A Weekly N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i ew DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness Pias IX to the Tablet, June 4, 1870.
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Chronicle of the W e e k :
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The Genoa Conference — A Russo-German Treaty-Allied Note to the German Delegation — Ireland ’• Republicans and Free Staters—A Manifesto— Indian Frontier Trouble — Military Struggle in China— Mr. Churchill on the R.I.C.— The Deadlock in Engineering ...........................................493 T opics :
Readjustments o f the “ Intan
gible” ................................. 496 The Quarrel at Jerusalem ••• 497 Notes ••• ••• ••• ••• 499
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Reviews :
The Geometric Bases o f Classic
Page and Medieval Religious Architecture ... 502 Greek Prose ... 503 The Beatitudes ••• ... 503 The Last Things ••• ... 503 Synagogue Hymns ... 504 St. John Berchmans ... 504 The Month... ... 504 Books of the Week ••• ... 504 L iterary Notes ... ... 505 Ch e s s ......................... Correspondence ... 506 Rome—(From Our Own Corre
spondent;.................................509
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News from Ireland .............. 510 L etters to the Ed it o r *
The Death o f the Ex-Emperor
Karl .................................. 511 A Polish Orphanage .............. 511 Ireland and Pope Adrian’s Bull 511 The Salford Training College,
Manchester ........................ 512 Et Ce t e r a .................................. 512 The Cardinal’s Easter Day
Sermon .................................. 514 The Pope .................................. 514 Marriage .......................................516 Cardinal Bourne Jubilee Fund ... 516
Marble Work in Westminster
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Cathedral ••• ... .............516 Coming Events ............ ... 516 N ew s from the D ioceses : Westminster
Southwark ... Brentwood ... Liverpool ... Plymouth ...
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Scotland :
St. Andrews and Edinburgh 520 Wales :
Cardiff ... ........................ 620 Menevia.................................. 520 Obituary ....................................... 520 S ocial and P ersonal ... -- 521
NOTANDA More about the present situation of the Church in France. An effort to get round the lois laiques in the common interest o f the Church and of France. M. W eiller’s plea for the religious congregations (p. 496).
Denunciations of the Irish Republican military junta and its methods by the Archbishop o f Tuam and the Bishop o f Killaloe. “ W ithout sanction or authority from the people” : maxims and methods “ anti-Irish and un-Catholic ” which if persevered in must end in civil war (p. 510).
The quarrel between the Orthodox Patriarch o f Jerusalem and his Synod. Flow it arose and what it reveals. W hy the Orthodox Church cannot judge or stop such disputes; the moral of it all (p. 497).
W hy the ratio o f increase in the Catholic population in America is not keeping pace with that of the general population. Some explanatory suggestions by Dr. E. V . O ’ Hara. The effect of Catholics being chiefly in the towns (p. 500).
The Archbishop of Liverpool points the lessons of the recent Papal election. “ The Papacy has actually achieved all that the Petrine texts, as interpreted by us, have led us to expect it would achieve.” W hat the Holy See has a right to expect from the modern secularized State (p. 514).
Time and place o f the Jubilee presentation to Cardinal Bourne (p. 516).
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK
The discussions at the Genoa Conference have continued, but so far they can scarcely be said to have justified the high hopes placed in the gathering. Wednesday in last week was passed in meetings of sub-committees, but behind everything has stood the question of the relations between the Powers and Soviet Russia. The Russian delegation have objected to the report by the London Conference o f experts on the matter of recognition. It contained a detailed plan for the repayment by Russia of her foreign obligations, and the conditions upon which she may hope for the resumption of economic relations with the Allies. On Maundy Thursday and Good Friday there
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was no sitting o f the Conference, but the representatives of the Allies were occupied with an attempt to secure from the Russian delegation an agreement which would lead to a resumption of economic relations. The Russians were asked to g ive a definite answer in writing. Whilst this was awaited, Litvinoff on Saturday, in reply to the demand that the Soviet Government should recognize Russia’s foreign debts, which include some ^400,000,000 to Great Britain, suddenly put forward an impudent claim for the payment by the Allies of 50 milliards of gold roubles— a matter o f ^5,000,000,000— for the damage done by the anti-Soviet expeditions with the Allies’ aid. On behalf o f the Allies Mr. Lloyd George repudiated responsibility for any part of this damage. It will be seen from this that so far the time o f the Conference had been chiefly taken up, not with European restoration, but Russia. Indeed, the Times special correspondent seemed to think that the Bolshevists were dominating the Conference, and using Genoa a9 a great stage for propaganda purposes. Recognizing the firmness o f France, they were making a determined effort to isolate her.
woiour was certainly lent to this treaty view by the announcement which was made in Tuesday’s papers that a treaty had been signed between Germany and the Bolshevists. Such separate action on a vital Conference matter certainly looks like what the Times correspondent describes as “ a formidable kick to the Conference.” That some sort o f negotiations had been going on was known, but it seems to have been expected that the Bolshevists would either altogether abandon resistance to the Allied demand or retreat g-radually. The agreement has at any rate queered the Conference pitch, even if it be not an infraction of the Treaty of Versailles. It consists of six brief articles. First, the two Governments agree to regulate all questions arising out of the war by resigning all claims to repayment o f war costs and to compensation for damage, military or civil. Juridical questions are also to be settled on a principle of reciprocity. Secondly, Germany abandons all claims to compensation for administration o f the law in Russia and from Soviet measures affecting German nationals, the Soviet Government undertaking not to satisfy any such demands from other foreign Governments. Thirdly, diplomatic and consular relations are to be renewed; and fourthly, the nationals o f each are to
