Ï’HE TABLET A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER AND REVIEW ESTABLISHED 1840 REGISTERED AS A NEWSPAPER No. 5236 LONDON, SEPTEMBER 14th, 1940 SIXPENCE IN THIS ISSUE THE JESUITS: 1540-1940 The First Part of a Centenary Survey of the Achievement of St. Ignatius ENGLAND AND IRELAND A Summing-Up, by Arnold Lunn ROMANO GUARDINI A Great German Priest: by Irene Marinoff V h THE WORLD WEEK BY WEEK ;yb i v ttacks on.London fi>. sht ; y and undiscriminating bombing of London ------- 0 — —----- --- Panjnot to be taken as primarily an attempt to t V ^°r, h 3n<^ demoralization. That advantage is lrtf capi, attacks aim at so dislocating the life vHj ^ t h a t t hr» R r i t i c h r i n u p r n m p n t ’ e c r*H r o c IM -M,t that the British Government’s schemes fj'V^tedi 'Nation will have to be put into effect. A rA] the best answer to the night bomber is a Jk.&ut activities, accompanied by a rigorous blackvjtij c0n{Uch dispersal, which means that nearly all \ S . >afcts are hy telephone, involves some loss of •14 renevv r|tk^ Nazis attempt to land in Britain, of AArPrjSe ed signs are appearing, they will rely largely ,j tyy anc^ t^c creation of confusion by Aj). do s interfering with official communications. A$t Ali^ ?t expect to witness any further marked the'°n Government. Official buildings are m excellent protection against air attack, r more and more of the staff will live in, or \8 h t : °Al.v°id travelling to less secure places for entered the war, and the Italians have proved themselves quite unable to close the narrow gap between Sicily and the Libyan coast. One of the largest convoys of transports to have sailed from Britain since the beginning of the war arrived safely at Alexandria at the week-end, and was welcomed at Cairo by the G.O.C. British troops in Egypt, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Wilson— a man whose name is likely to become more familiar in the near future. Shortly after Mr. Churchill had finished his speech, an Admiralty communiqué described how “ the whole of the main part of the Mediterranean Sea was swept, without enemy warships being encountered,” and announced the details of extensive operations in both the eastern and the western sections. The Dodecanese Islands were subjected to particularly heavy attack ; Scarpanto was bombarded from the sea, and Rhodes was heavily bombed by aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm. Greece, Turkey, anti the Dodecanese „ th their families in the country, most « tuen lummem in me tjQvp Servants would prefer this. vroye lVdnis woum preier mis. | y't ^riy rilment has been well vindicated by events l},\ ^r0Veri ^ hs A.R.P. policy. Anderson shelters Vrf S anu Very effective protection, and the ArArst d auxiliary firemen have emerged from ¡A ¡>'b hari° US ordeals with the greatest credit. But .%°PulptiVe to be done to remove those of the EastJt A ay^°n» whose presence in the Dock area iAA Hjt,SSential to the war, to greater safety. ler S tsnknln,,. ----------- --fd . li, ,s technique to carry on a variety of w>tninS‘mV!taneously’ in order to be able to ipe e are'1?.® blows in more than one direction. b kePl guessing whether the next military W ! al t h l h,ere or in the Mediterranean, or both f l i, :'s nrft° aSP the last possibility would be contrary P% eVl°us te-1- - -------d --------VtlT*1 onIOUs technique of isolating and concentraCU. iiidi C^hing at a time. We draw satisfaction v> 'A Ve ' “ l l l jns that the R.A.F. ’s blows in Germany y real results in damaging German capacity V LVc"gth ^k M1Ur in the Mediterranean ? \ eek, s . 1>in his speech in the House of Commons k \ W n id.Very exPhcitly that “ We must expect ke 0„g *n the Middle East before very long.’’ .■•suu •À 0qrUer[anean> and of the constant doubling of the British Fleet in the bUffDnoon or«/4 /-if* ihp nonclnnj rCUlfOrCC" ch js a military and air strength in t fy°a$tarit,rrieasure of our naval strength that we are the Middle editerray to send convoys through the length of ““ean ; We have been doing so since Italy Tran Apart from their military significance, these operations are valuable for their effect upon the Turks, whose attitude remains of great importance. The doubling of our Eastern Mediterranean strength, and the attack on the Italians in the Dodecanese, will give new confidence both to them and to the Greeks. The Turks regard the Dodecanese as properly Turkish, as they were until the last war ; and the islanders regard themselves emphatically as Greeks. They fought in the Greek war of independence ; and in 1912, when, by a curious arrangement, the islands were occupied by the Italians but remained under Turkish sovereignty, they held a conference at Patmos, and called for the establishment of an “ Ægean State,” declaring the “ permanent wish of the Ægean Islanders to be united with their mother country, Greece.” Both Turks and Greeks would welcome a large-scale attack to drive the Italians out, even if there might probably be some debate afterwards as to which country should then rule in the Dodecanese. While Mr. Churchill was speaking in the Commons, Lord Halifax was speaking in the House of Lords, and reaffirming the British pledge to support the Greeks if they should be attacked. The tension between Italy and Greece has seemed to be less during the past week or so ; but there is no sign that the Italian forces in Albania have been reduced, and the cessation of “ incidents” does not necessarily mean that the prospects are better. Indeed, if the Italians copy the German technique, they would precede an attack by gestures designed to give their victims confidence, which is what the Germans did towards the Netherlands, as the Dutch Foreign Minister, Dr. E. N. van Kleffens, has described this week.