THR TABLET
A I’V ° x k ly N ew spaper and R eview 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 ol. 141. No. 4,333. L ondon, May 26, 1 9 2 3 .
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C h ro n ic le o f t h e W e e k :
Imperial Parliament • Our Relations with Russia — The Egyptian Constitution — The Government Reply — Resigna tion o f Mr. Bonar Law—Oppo sition and French Tributes— The New Prime Minister — Tightening up in the Ruhr—M. Poincaré and the Occupation— The Prince o f Wales and ExService Men — The Spirit o f Comradeship ... ••• ... 685 T o p ic s :
The Change at the Helm ••• 688 Blessed Cardinal Bellarmine ... 688
CONTENTS
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Identification o f Some “ Traditional ” Hymn Tunes— III ... 690 N o t e s .......................... 691
R e v i e w s :
A History o f the Church ••• 694 Two Priest-Poets...........................694 The Diocese o f S trasburg ••• 695 Short Talks Upon Philosophy 695 Carina ......................................696 The “ Vie de Jesus ” 696 Science P r o g r e s s .......................... 696 Books o f the W e e k ...........................696 L i t e r a r y N o t e s ... — 697 C h e s s ................................................. 698
C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Rome—(From Our Own Correspondent) ••• ...
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N ew s from I r e l a n d
Double Acrostic
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L e t t e r s t o t h e E d itor :
The Little Office of the Immaculaie Conception
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O Roma N o b i l i s ............ ... 703 The Gillow Library ... 703 The Right o f Sanctuary in
England •• ............ ... 704 A Custom at St. Sulpice ... 704 Catholic Education Notes ... 704 School Sports ... 704 E t C a k t k r a ...................... ... 706
Catholic A ssociation Pilgrim
Page ages .............................................. 707 The “ Dunmow F l i tc h ” at Ilford 707 Catholic Y oung Men’s Societies 708 Conference o f Catholic Colleges 709 N ew s f r o m th e D iocesf.s
Westminster
Southwark •••
Birmingham
Leeds...
Liverpool ...
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Middlesbrough .............. ... 711 Nottingham ............. ... 711 Coming Events ... 711 Whit-M onday at Preston ... 712 O b it u a r y ............................ ... 712 S o c ia l a n d P e r s o n a l ... 712
NOTANDA. Beatification of a g re a t controversialist. An article by Father Thurston, S .J . , in tribute to Blessed Cardinal Bellarmine, noble-hearted scholar and unflinching champion of orthodoxy. The “ obstinate purpose ” o f an Elizabethan Protestant in Rome, and the manner of its achievement (p. 688).
Tw o Catholic Conferences : the twenty-seventh conference of Catholic Colleges at Ushaw (p. 709); and the annual conference, at Leeds, of the Catholic Young Men’s Societies (p. 708).
A g reat Eucharistic Congress for America in 1926. Projected arrangements by the Catholics of Chicago for welcoming a million visitors (p. 691).
Dr. Grattan Flood, K .S .G . , offers some further identifications of hymn tunes. Interesting notes in regard to ten well-known melodies (p. 690).
An Orthodox “ Church Council ” at Moscow and how it was created : revelations by a Times correspondent of motives and methods in the interests of the Bolshevist Government. The trick by which the Patriarch Tikhon was declared a layman (p. 691).
The Whit-M onday procession at Preston : another fine display by the Catholic guilds (p. 712).
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK, imperial parliament : \ fter a debate on Thursday of our relations with jT \ . last week on our relations
Russia. with Russia, the House of Commons stood adjourned until Monday, May 28. Sir E. G r ig g drew attention to the critical state of our relations with Russia from the point of view of the peace of the world. He had no sympathy, he said, with the record of the present Russian Government, which had such an awful tale of murder and outrage to its charge. He urged, however, that there is no way of dealing with the people of a country except through its Government, and expressed a hope that the British Government would do all in their power to bring conversations with M. Krassin to a successful issue. Mr. O ’Grady, dealing with the Russian Trade Agreement, maintained that nothing should be done to come to any conclusion on the questions now being discussed between Lord Curzon and M. Krassin without the consent of the
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House. Mr. R. McNeill declined to reply to the speeches of Sir E. G r ig g and Mr. O ’Grady, which he described as “ an overflow from the Russian debate ’ ’ two days before. Captain Benn maintained that parts of these two speeches had not been dealt with in the debate on Tuesday. He alluded to the appeal made by both speakers for an assurance that no definite and final step would be taken with regard to our relations with Russia until the reassembling of the House on Monday week. Mr. McNeill declined to g iv e any such assurance. He maintained that the matter w a s submitted to the House on the Tuesday. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald declared that Tuesday’s debate was only a preliminary discussion of the subject, and not a decision one way or the other a s to the tearing up of the Trade Agreement. The House, he said, had never decided whether or not it w a9 in favour of a rupture with Russia. Various speakers appealed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to g iv e the assurance which Mr. McNeill had refused. Mr. Baldwin maintained that they were adopting a conciliatory attitude. He trusted that there would be a favourable issue to the discussion now tak in g place. In answer to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s question, “ Does a favourable issue mean a complete acceptance, word for word and comma for comma, of your Note? ’ ’ Mr. Baldwin replied : “ N o ; not word for word and comma for comma, but a satisfaction that what we demand will be m e t .”
— THE EGYPTIAN CONSTITUTION. In the course of the debate Mr. Spoor raised the question of Egypt,
rem arking that Lord Curzon had recently made a very reassuring speech, in which he implied that the Egyptian situation was becoming a little easier. He expressed a hope that that was so, but pointed out that since Egyptian independence was declared the greatest political leader in E g yp t had been imprisoned, and although he had now been released, many of those arrested with him were still in exile. Innocent people, he declared, had been and were being flung into prison and kept there for months without t r i a l ; their homes had been raided, and they had been subjected to all kinds o f indignities. The press, he asserted, w a s under the strictest supervision, and many periodicals had been suppresed. Continuing, he said that the country w a s still under martial law , and the present Egyptian policy had been, he maintained, a complete failure. “ Indeed,” he said, “ if it were not so pathetic, the situation would be almost Gilbertian.
