Communications
July 21, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 287 to rediscover it immediately thereafter, the latter would...
...the propriety of more than fifty miles...
...EDWARD HUGHES, O.P...
...I was very sorry indeed that I could be at the time being, but requiring the performance of further con- the Summer School only a single week, for there were half a ditions if it is to become permanent and absolute...
...for his settlement to control...
...All these in right of the occupying government to cont -ol a reasonable addition to the sociology under Father Kirby, Father Ayd, length of coast, or to extend its claims into tlT e interior...
...He was the first native since it was a solid floor upon which men could live indefi- Chinese priest and was the only native Chinese bishop up to nitely, that it "savored of the realty" and might be governed the time of the recent nominations...
...TO the Editor:-When the syllabus of the Catholic SumTo this extent, mere discovery does confer title to the terri- mer School for the current session came to me at the tory discovered, but it is an "inchoate" title, as it has been beginning of the month, I looked it over and was very much called, a title good enough to bar the rest of the world for pleased with it...
...He seem as if an argument could be made to the sffect that such was consecrated bishop in the city of Canton in 1685 and ice had lost its marine nature when it acquired permanence and died in Nanking on February 28, 1690...
...ice, yards in thickness and at least as permanen : and stationary He was born in Lokia, China...
...I am always sorry to miss the the annexation of which has not been contemplated, his act literary and dramatic treat afforded by Mr...
...porary relinquishing of territorial control, but once definitely You can appreciate my surprise then when an editorial in made, it destroys any priority which the original occupier may The Commonweal praised "the attention given to sociology in have had...
...dozen courses at least that I should like to hear very much...
...If this agent has been most insistent literary critic would find something to ease his specifically authorized by his government to search for and smart...
...like to be present for Monsignor Slattery's lectures on Dante, If a commissioned representative of a government claims land, always an up-to-date subject...
...by the laws which refer to earthen territory...
...Just as obviously, an ice- monweal's readers that Father Gregory Lopez, O.P., of the berg or tract of water in the middle of the Atlantic cannot Holy Rosary province of the Dominican Order, was the first be occupied...
...Week, in The Commonweal of July 7, I find that "the Another question relates to the nature of the territory found supreme Pontiff has just created the first native Chinese bishop...
...Will the old law of the freedom January 1, 165o, and was professed on March 7, 1651...
...It is easy to talk about the Music that I should like very much to hear...
...This est American literary man, Lowell, as Monsignor Henry's is in opposition to the ordinary rule of the common law of lecture syllabus presents it...
...Another sovereign will deny JAMES J. WALSH...
...and occupied...
...Today, these T THE FIRST NATIVE CHINESE BISHOP questions are usually settled by treaty or arbitration, but in New York, N. Y. earlier centuries, before swift means of comriunication, they O the Editor:-In one of the paragraphs of Week by were settled by the sword...
...Any other nation ma' then claim the ing whether I cannot plan to be at Sir Bertram Windle's Funland anew...
...July 21, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 287 to rediscover it immediately thereafter, the latter would have COMMUNICATIONS no right to claim or occupy the island unless or until the intention of the United States not to do so were evident...
...An abandonment must be more than a mere tem- damental and American Ethnology lectures...
...Innumerable wars have are other things like Professor Gibbs on The Education of arisen over boundary disputes...
...Like the birds of the air and the wild leaders...
...In this case, it lapses into its state and Nursing and Other Social Movements, for here are of non-ownership...
...Or vague natural boundaries may lead to endless arguments...
...The and Father John Ryan which the editorial has made much difficulty lies in the refusal of various nations, the ambitions of, show that the visitor to the Summer School during the of which are mutually antagonistic, to accept what in law present session will have a chance to gather in stimulating is called "an agreed statement of facts...
...But how about a tract of perpetual and solid native Chinese priest and bishop...
...He received the habit on as many a volcanic island...
...One sovereign will reviews of recent thought movements and still more stimulatassert that a coastal stretch of one hundred miles is proper ing material for intellectual attention next winter...
...REV...
...Arid yet it would priesthood there he returned to China for mission work...
...Obviously, an island or contine lt, consisting of Permit me to bring to your attention and that of The Comearth and stone, can be occupied...
...dear Father John Talbot Smith, and Professor Derry on the Like so many other topics in international law, the prin- Progressive Paganization of the American Mind...
...But if am quite sure that those who have the chance to listen to a wholly uncommissioned, unauthorized private person at- Right Reverend Monsignor Henry of the Catholic University tempts to annex territory, the better view is that his act is will not soon forget the fine outline of the career of our greatvoid and incapable of being later ratified by his sovereign...
...its various aspects," but added, "by comparison other aspects The claiming of new territory in the narle of a sovereign of the program are rather noticeably weak, though even the must rocessarily be done by an agent...
...I am tempted to say, "I should hope so...
...It is a distinct deprivation to have to miss Father beasts, "ferae naturae," it becomes "yes nullius," a thing be- Gillis's trenchant review of popular books, and I am wonderlonging to nobody...
...Even after complete occupation of newly annexed territory, I should surely like to be at Father Healy's lectures on Presentand, "a fortiori," after discovery but befo, e occupation, the Day Protestantism, and at Father Garesche's on Hospitals land may be abandoned...
...His of the seas govern and will this ice be considered as nothing studies were made in Manila and after ordination to the but crystallized sea water...
...Paulding, and I becomes valid only if his government later r ltifies it...
...Besides these, there are Professor agency, which permits subsequent ratificatior of the conduct Remy, the Very Reverend Patrick J. McCormick on our own of an unauthorized person who acts as an ostensible agent...
...Our THE CATHOLIC SUMMER SCHOOL country would be entitled, under international law, to a rea- New York, N. Y. sonable time in which to plant a colony or ;ettlement thereon...
...Probably yes...
...ciples relating to discovery and occupation ar° clear but their All of that makes the teeth of my mind water and yet there application is of great difficulty...
...I would annex a particular tract of territory, his action is clearly valid...
Vol. 4 • July 1926 • No. 11
