THE TABLET
s i Weekly Newspaper and Review
BUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCGEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS,
from the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4, 187«.
V ol. 135. No. 4,165 L ondon, M arch 6 , 1920.
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Chronicle of the Week :
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Imperial Parliament: Constantinople —Women's Franchise Extension—Food Control—The Lords and Nationalization— Land Laws Simplification— Neutrals and the League o f Nations—The Collapse o f the French Railway Strike—Petrol Prices too H ig h ..................... 309 Topics :
The Home Rule Bill ...............312 A Word to the Saturday
Review .............. ••• ••• 313 Messages from Behind the
“ Vale*’ .................................315 Notes............... — — •- 316
CONTENTS
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Reviews : Westminster Cathedral and its
Architect........................................ 318 A First Book o f V e r s e ................. 319 Richard Rolle o f Hampole ••• 319 The Maid o f Orleans .................319 Natural Religion............................ 319 Literary Notes ............................ 320 Books o f the Week ... ••• ••• 321 The War and the Church.................321 Obituary ........................................ 321 Catholic Successes in London
Matriculation ............................ 322 The “ E g an ” Lawsuit .................322 Catholic Women’s League at
Oxford ............... 322
Literary Work o f the Late Father
David Bearne, S-J....................322 Ch e s s ....................................... 324 Correspondence :
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Rome—(From Our Own Corre
spondent).................................327 Letters to the Editor :
The Time for the Easter
P r e c e p t ................................. 329 Spain and the Congress o f Women’s Suffrage Societies 329 A Campaign o f Catholic In
struction ........................................330 Daylight S a v in g ..................... 330 A Business Womans Club ... 330 A Boy s Home in Austria ... 330 Hospital o f St. John and St.
Elizabeth.................................... . 330
Letters continued :—
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The Authoress o f " Geraldine” 332 Catholic Association Pilgrimages
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Et Cæ t e r a .......................... ... 332 News from the Dioceses : Westminster .............. ... 334
Southwark.............. ... ... 336 Birmingham .............. ... 338 Leeds ... .............. ... 338 Liverpool ............... ... 338 Middlesbrough ............... ... 338 Nottingham ............... - 338 Portsmouth ............... ... 340 Saltord .. 340 Will ...................................... ... 340 Marriage .............. ... ¿40 Social and Personal ... 340
NOTANDA
The question of diplomatic relations between France and the Vatican. Coming developments (p. 327).
The Editor of the Saturday Review makes a reckless charge against the Catholic Church. How the Supreme Court of the Rota works when it considers nullity cases. Some examples (p. 313).
The condition o f Vienna and the evidence of Mr. Edward Stonor. “ I cashed an English cheque in Vienna to-day, receiving for every pound 1,000 kronen. The pre-war rate was 24 kronen to the pound, and this tragic difference is the measure of Austria’s plight.” Unless help comes quickly Vienna “ will become a childless city, or at least one of dwarfs and deformities due to disease and malnutrition ” (p. 332).
The new code of Soviet law in Russia. How at death all property returns to the State. The ideal of cheap divorce— the wish of either party a sufficient reason for the dissolution of marriage (p. 316).
The poet who made Theocritus rhyme with Adam Smith:— and how he did it (p. 320).
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK
revolution there was an end of the arrangement to place Russia in power in Constantinople. He had given a pledge that there must be a different gatekeeper to the Black Sea, and that would be observed in the spirit and the letter. Again, in 1918 he had declared deliberately that we were not fighting to deprive Turkey of its capital, and that, too, would be kept, for it was a reassurance to the Mahommedans, who formed onefourth of our Empire. Our decision to retain the Turk in Constantinople was not based on financial interests, but on reasons concerned with India with which we must keep faith. Our legitimate peace aims in Turkey were to secure the freedom of the Straits, and the freeing of all non-Turkish countries from Ottoman sway, whilst preserving self-government for the Turk in mainly Turkish communities. This last point was, however, subject to two reservations— adequate safeguards for our protecting oppressed minorities and rendering the Turk powerless to veto the development of rich lands. Turkey was, therefore, to be deprived of the guardianship of the gates, the forts were to be dismantled, her army removed, and her fleet ended. The alternative to this was an international government at Constantinople, which ovould only breed intrigue. There had been another— that o f Russia or America helping us to govern there— but events had ruled out both these. If the Turk were sent elsewhere, where he could not be got at, how would that conduce to the protection of minorities? It was intended to deprive the Turk of the government of the non-Turkish communities he had oppressed. Lord Robert Cecil, who spoke next, urged that the solution explained would hand back Constantinople to the Turkish Government, which was the very thing to be got rid of. He appealed for a reversal of the policy of the Conference, and recommended that Constantinople should be handed over to the League of Nations.
CONSTANTINOPLE. T
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT;
h e debate on the future of
Constantinople last week gave the Prime Minister an oppor
tunity for justifying the policy agreed to by the Supreme Conference. Sir Donald Maclean, whilst fully aware of the difficulty and delicacy of the question, declared that Constantinople had been for over a century a cesspool of intrigue and a source of massacre, and if the Turk were left there these horrors would be repeated. Sir E. Carson asked who would drive the Turk out? What really mattered was whether safeguards against misrule were to be insisted on. Mr. Lloyd George, who followed, pointed out that owing to the Russian
A second reading was given, with chise extension, httle dissent, to the Representation of the People Bill, the purpose of which is to confer the franchise on women on exactly the same terms as men had received it, by removing the age limit of thirty years and substituting the same age limit as applied to men, namely, twenty-one years. The Bill also sought to secure political equality between the sexes and all classes by (1) abolishing the occupational qualification and the qualification of women as wives
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