The Church and the World, III
Reynold, Gonzague de
240 THE COMMONWEAL July 7, 1926 THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD III. CATHOLIC ACTION AT...
...It is through knowlgroup of the Union to give lectures in Geneva on the edge of the international problems, which now preoccasion of its last two general assemblies...
...For the selection, made with a weekly journalistic "column"-who did not fail to Mr...
...The Union acted in like manner at the time of the Thanks to this situation, the most cordial relations opium conference of the League of Nations in 1923- have existed between the League of Nations and its 24...
...Blaise Turks...
...It must work on an equality, be tried by the same tests, is easy to think of Mrs...
...Louis Vogt (of Geneva...
...either the inscrutable wisdom or the inscrutable simNever was anyone more ideally equipped to interpret plicity of nature...
...And her right was all the greater superimposed above the hands of the busy, maternal because she "held very insistently the belief that in the Martha...
...Catholic International Association for the Protection The Union intervened in the discussion of the Ruf- of Young Girls, the Pax Romana, the Caritasverband fini project (scientific property) by the Commission of Germany, the Gorresgesellschaft, the Catholic Welof the League of Nations, and caused to be accepted, fare Council of the United States, etc...
...What it accomplished, for example, in regard of view of the Catholic organizations...
...one is confronted by the staggering bibliography of her It was characteristic of Alice Meynell to hold the work...
...George G. Harrap and Company...
...and it made itself the interBut beginning in 1923, the Union definitely aban- preter of the desire of the principal missions to be doned theory in order to enter the practical field...
...The Union has done a great deal to bat the gross abuse of narcotics...
...It asked to collaborate in the work to be undertaken, is entitled to record the results, some of which are of in accordance with the recommendation of the League...
...occupy world opinion, that Catholics, inspired by the Outside the League of Nations, the Catholic Union doctrine and tradition of the Church, may work for of International Studies has endeavored to make con- their solution...
...In a most complete report it placed represent the application of this essentially active and in evidence the efforts accomplished by the Catholic practical method...
...It made efas the most practical solution, the project of Pro- forts to organize intellectual mutual aid for the benefessor Gariel, who is one of the vice-presidents of the fit of Catholic institutions and groups...
...It been notable enough...
...de Halecki, chief of mitted to the Council a report regarding the deporta- the section of University Relations (one of the most tions and massacres of Catholic Chaldeans by the important for Catholic interests) and Mr...
...of much domesticity...
...It also had the merit of attract- must be noted that the Union was the only Catholic ing the attention of Catholics to the League of Nations association represented at this conference, whilst seven and of determining the method of cooperation to be associations of other creeds took part...
...The Union collaborates equally and main- The Union addresses the Catholic elite of all countains the best of relations with the University Federa- tries, not claiming to direct their initiative but with tion for the League of Nations...
...She knew the soft pitfalls of the over-personal, and...
...The Union accomplished was really more theoretical than practical...
...Meynell's genius, both in and ask no indulgence, the one from the other, on the prose and verse, as an aloof, exotic thing: easy, until score of sex...
...It entered into uninterrupted relations with a unit in the face of the great problems on the solution the International Union of Women's Leagues, the of which depends the future of our civilization...
...I hope this article may Catholic members of the Interparliamentary Union have interested American Catholics in the effort, beand thus assured itself of very precious and influential cause, in spite of separation by oceans, Catholics are relations...
...CATHOLIC ACTION AT GENEVA By GONZAGUE DE REYNOLD U NTIL its reorganization in 1923, the activity the work of the League of Nations through the interof the Catholic Union of International Studies mediation of the Union...
...It participated actively, as one of the be taken into consideration and to fight against the attending associations, in the conference called for propagation of pernicious doctrines...
...This document was communicated officially to Briod, chief assistant of the section of Literary Reall the members of the Council...
...It is human terity of The Flower, the infinite suggestiveness of art which has learned to transplant and to husband...
...It thus assured rally Catholic opinion to this just and necessary idea the possibility of communicating regularly to the of intellectual cooperation...
...the highest importance...
...Mon- relations, on the same basis as official universities...
...It is through being present where the nections with prominent Catholic associations of the solutions of these problems are discussed and worked various countries, with a view of securing their col- out, that Catholics will be able to see that religion laboration...
...thereafter, on the basis of this Professor de Reynold, has been a member of the Cominformation, in succeeding with its plan of having mission since 1922, that he is its general recorder and Catholic interests represented, or at least taken into that he is, moreover, a member of the managing comconsideration...
...missionaries in Africa...
...It made known, in circles where they were too Institute on one side, and the Catholic Union and its much ignored, the efforts, more than two centuries Catholic Commission of Intellectual Cooperation on old, of the missionary clergy in the Far East to com- the other side...
...ARTIST AND WOMAN By KATHERINE BREGY ANEW collection of Mrs...
...adopted...
...The Union studied rather than acted...
...The wonderful studies of Pere de la Briere The Union also entered into communication with on the international organization of the contempo- the commission constituted by the Council of the raneous world and the sovereign Papacy, the first series League of Nations for considering the problems of of which, published in 1924, is dedicated to the Union, slavery survival...
...Hers were the eyes of the contemplative Mary writing of women...
...Castella, served as expert with the Commission...
...the delicate irony of Decivilized for instance, the aus- For nature gives abundantly or not at all...
...Two officers of this Institute question by the Council of the League, the Union sub- are members of the Union: Mr...
...The second has the intention of suggesting to them a method of study shown the great importance it attaches to these re- and of action, the value and efficacy of which it has lations by appealing twice to members of the French already had occasion to learn...
...Union...
...It is no exaggeration lations...
...In compensation, it has League of Nations information regarding the work obtained from the Commission of the League of Naof the missionary clergy, and made certain that col- tions the assurance that the independent universities laboration of Catholics in the activity of the League will be treated, in everything concerning university of Nations would be permitted in this domain...
...Wilfrid Meynell's customary felicity, brings to- send in her fastidious copy the very day before giving gether thirteen studies of "women who have created birth to one of her many children-was not far from literature or been by literature created...
...It should be added that for two years, the to affirm that the League attached the greatest value president of the Swiss group of the Union, Professor to the information contained in that report...
...The Rhythm of Life-have found their way into the And for all her exceeding artistry, the woman-poet who little volume just issued,* it has none the less a rather contributed some of the finest prose of her century to unique charm of its own...
...Meynell's essays is one suddenly remembers that there is nothing more always an event in literature : and while not many profuse, more incredibly varied, nor more mysteriously of the most precious and profound of them- enduring than the orchid-in its own natural milieu...
...Balinski-Juldzill, is a Catho- Catholic Union of Social Studies of Malines, the lic member of the Polish group of the Union...
...Monorientation...
...She had the right, as her husband the artist-woman than Alice Meynell-who might suggests (only he would generously extend the sugstand, indeed, as very symbol of that dual and difficult gestion to all her sex 1) to speak "as an expert when role...
...the visible triumph of the artistic tempera- practice of literature and the arts women and men ment in spite (or because...
...Then, by way of some possible comparison, intimate knowledge, the intimate subject, at arm's * Essays of Today and Yesterday, by Alice Meynell...
...organization still very incomplete and with means of It made connections in Berne, in 1924, with the action exceedingly limited...
...mittee of the International Institute of Intellectual For instance, during the discussion of the Mosul Cooperation in Paris...
...London: length, and only then to permit tenderness to her pen...
...signor Constantini, apostolic delegate in Pekin, made This will apply also to the International Association known the value he attached to this aspect of the of Catholic Students, "Pax Romans," in dealing with Union's activity and declared himself disposed to favor other international associations of students, such as collaboration of the Catholic missions in China with the International Students' Confederation (the present July 7, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 24 president of which, Mr...
...It still more during the last opium conference, at which was carrying on through the period, always rather it was officially represented by Monsignor Beaupin lengthy, of contacts in the making, of studies, of (French) and by Mr...
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...Essentially, these results have In the important Commission of Intellectual Coconsisted in informing the League of Nations of the operation of the League of Nations, the action of the international activities of Catholics and of their view- Union was facilitated by the fact that its president, points and doctrine...
...The Catholic August, 1925, in Oxford by the Catholic Council of Union of International Studies shows, we hope at Great Britain for the purpose of discussing the most least, the results that are attainable, even with an efficacious means to assure better coordination...
...and his parto the mandate for Palestine and the Holy Places, has ticipation was received with the greatest favor...
...It signor Beaupin was invited by the members of the must not be supposed, however, that it remained in- conference to make a public statement of the point active...
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