Week by Week
WEEK BY WEEK COMMENTING upon our recent analysis of New ^¦^ York's mayor, the Telegram of August 21 professes to be disturbed by a reference to the fact that Tammany is widely accepted as an...
...These people must live, and if Palestine is forbidden, a chief hope, a last hope is gone...
...Tilden, the uncontracted-for largesse of a legacy will probably not be suffered to affect even the penumbra of a fixed luminary like Mrs...
...We have already briefly touched upon this feature of the situation, in so far as it is the probable political consequence of the demands of Indian Mohammedans resentful of the Declaration for their Arabian coreligionists...
...IEAR after year, meetings of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae serve to indicate the lasting efficacy of higher education given Catholic to women under religious auspices...
...There seems excellent reason to think so...
...We do not imagine she will, in spite of the tumult and the shouting...
...The new director of VolReform steadian enforcement has declared his Where intention of urging all agents to conNeeded duct themselves like law-abiding citizens...
...IF MR...
...We put our faith in the ingenuity which smoothed out the Tilden tangle by forbidding him to write for newspapers during the Davis Cup matches...
...Writing in the Nation, William Zuckerman, a London journalist, depicts the growing pressure upon this most unfortunate section of his unfortunate people...
...By the Association's rules, an amateur is one who derives no financial profit from the game, directly or indirectly...
...JVlEANWHILE, the suspension of Jewish immigration into Palestine still continues...
...AMOS WOODCOCK keeps at it, the world may eventually become somewhat safer even for prohibitionists...
...The speeches of Herr Treviranus, advocating revision of the Polish corridor, were viewed with such alarm throughout France that M. Briand had all he could do to pour enough oil on the waters...
...The heart of Magdalen is the source of the modern novel...
...Possibly this interpretation reposes upon some antiquated facultative psychology...
...Meanwhile one hopes that the convention, meeting as this is written, at Saint Joseph's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland, will prove more successful than anticipated...
...Socialists, T.| p hitherto in virtual control of the government, have adhered to a policy of social insurance and wage stability, their general attitude toward foreign relations being tempered by relative friendliness for conciliation...
...It hastens to seek refuge Telegram m the "original doctrine of a separated Church and state" which forms a cardinal principle in the political philosophy of the United States...
...Meanwhile, however, the manifest abuses of social insurance have led other groups to feel that national security must be attained through a far more radical exploit...
...The question of Zionism, the writer reminds us, is here beside the point...
...They are barred altogether from Australia and South Africa...
...Now of course we were simply referring to a fact...
...As this point of view seems to us sane and human, we shall adhere to it indefinitely...
...Actors and journalists," he says, "have their patrons...
...Since the leadership and personnel of Tammany are largely recruited from Gotham's Catholic citizenry, the custom of the country has always been to assert that "this" is what Catholics (with all their imagined alien background) are capable of in civic life...
...DISCUSSION of specifically Catholic fiction is once more rife in France since the appearance of Francois Mauriac's Ce Qui Etait Perdu, a novel The in which there are spiritual situations Catholic of such poignant beauty that critics Novel have been reminded not only of Dostoievsky but also of Saint Francis de Sales...
...Though the Jews of the world have united with characteristic generosity in raising an emergency relief fund, the differences of opinion within their body as to the scope and feasibility of Zionism have been sharpened...
...We should not be astounded if he were laid off a week...
...Moody...
...it is manifestly not in accord with life...
...1 HE month just concluded was the anniversary of the riots and massacres in Palestine...
...We surmise that civilization, often accused of shifting rapidly, is now in the midst of one of the most startling reversals of form on record...
...Now to suspend such a valiant soul for five days would have been regarded, in the good old times before Bishop Cannon retired to connubial bliss in South America, as singularly unappreciative of sterling talent...
...The factors of this pressure are two: the economic upset in the states of the former czarist empire outside of the Soviet government—a condition made acute by the present world crisis, and bearing hardest upon the Jews as aliens in these lands and the fact that, since the war, more and more countries have closed their ports to them...
...1 HE officials of the United States Lawn Tennis Association are always having to deal with casuistical problems respecting the amateur status What Is °^ t^1's or t*iat plaYer- They have only a i. o just finished resettling Mr...
...Albert Thibaudet makes this fiction his theme in the Nouvelle Revue Franchise, and points out that, historically speaking, there have been three trends...
...One of these men, agent Robert F. Myrtle of Milwaukee, got the best of a traffic argument by drawing a gun and announcing that it was all the "authority" he required...
...Will Mrs...
...Golding...
...Indeed, what the Telegram seems to propose is a kind of human department store, in which one airtight section is devoted to religion, another to politics, a third to business, and several others to such matters as art, sport, social intercourses and plain horse sense...
...It is, perhaps, only natural that such restrictions should evoke a great deal of sympathy for the parties named even among those who do not covet either a Mussolini or a Stalin...
...In the final analysis, the betterment of civic life is confided by the Church to laymen, with the understanding not that their isolated political "being" is to generate a certain amount of energy but that their personalities shall be devoted to the right performance of civic tasks...
...That is at once a shrewd critical remark and, from many points of view, not a bad suggestion...
...Helen Wills Moody upsets them by receiving a legacy of $20,000 from the late Senator Phelan...
...One understands Mr...
...Woodcock...
...That such an assertion is incorrect from several points of view we should be the first to concede...
...Hundreds of communal actions and legal decisions have had their sources in this consciousness...
...couragement...
...By the terms of the Senator's will, the money is left Mrs...
...Tilden— an Amateur...
...Meanwhile, several commissions have conducted lengthy investigations into the causes of controversy between Arabs and Jews, and have failed, despite their varied and complex findings, known and conjectured (for full reports have not yet been published in every case) to remove the impasse, or to change the pattern of fact in the mind of the informed observer...
...One of the foremost objects during recent years has been the building up of an education fund designed to provide scholarships for teaching sisters who wish to pursue advanced academic study...
...that troublesome necessity that no amount of recurrence seems to make easy—when Mrs...
...The lot of the eastern European Jew has become much more desperate since the haven of the Holy Land was closed to him...
...They resent correspondingly not merely the defiant "artificial" nationalism of some of the extreme Zionists, but the whole idea behind the Balfour Declaration, of ensuring prerogatives and protection to a progressive, industrialized minority...
...What happens during the next month may prove to be of exceptional significance...
...The second, concerned primarily with a demonstration of the social value of religion, found its chief exponent in Paul Bourget and largely served to give support to a conservative political doctrine...
...Nationalists, Fascists and Communists agree that the real cause of Germany's woes is the Young Plan, held to impose an economic burden impossible to carry...
...The novelists have none...
...Hence the closing of Palestine for a seemingly indefinite period was a tragic, perhaps an irremediable blow to many a community which is now being kept alive only by "the staggering effort of Jewish philanthropy in the United States...
...Another aspect of the matter begins to attract urgent attention...
...There is, in Palestine, a clash not only of religious but of economic philosophies, and the bitterness on each side is aggravated by a genuine sense of injustice...
...WEEK BY WEEK COMMENTING upon our recent analysis of New ^¦^ York's mayor, the Telegram of August 21 professes to be disturbed by a reference to the fact that Tammany is widely accepted as an exAnent pression of Catholic "political conthe sciousness...
...A similar stand has been taken, on the whole, by the Centre party...
...Yet here too our critic, who is inclined to be more than a little pessimistic, finds trouble brewing...
...Even more breath-taking is the fact that charges have been preferred against a Mr...
...Moody expressly as a testimonial of appreciation for her having won the tennis championship for California...
...A hasty mental review of what has been done in the Where interval to pacify and normalize that Shall disputed land does not carry much enThey Go...
...I can think of no appropriate Saint excepting Mary Magdalen...
...This and kindred enterprises of the Federation will be set forth in an article which The Commonweal hopes to publish shortly...
...The fact that this attitude complements so neatly certain recent maneuvers of Mussolini may be a partial explanation, but the chief source is undoubtedly the social and economic uneasiness of Germany...
...The first was the novel of ecclesiastical manners, which often became a medium for satirists of the clergy but was sometimes also a vehicle of propaganda...
...While denying the right of ecclesiastical authority to dictate beliefs or principles of action, the constitutional tradition has always earnestly reckoned with the fact that the consciousness of the nation is profoundly Christian...
...The majority, retaining for the most part the primitive simplicity and uninstructed conservatism of a pastoral and nomadic people, claim the right of a majority to keep their land and civilization unchanged...
...But facts are facts, and a journal interested in them can hardly avoid being disturbed by possible implications and consequences...
...We confess our inability to imagine grown citizens whose various "beings" are neatly roped off...
...But since the Telegram professes to be interested in doctrines, we shall devote more attention than we otherwise might to the remarkable conclusion to which its editor arrives...
...We shall make bold to declare that the political philosophy of the United States has never recognized the validity of such futile abstractions...
...1 HE significance of this extraordinary epigram is a little hard to get...
...vjURRENT political campaigning in Germany, necessitated by the dissolution of the Reichstag, may be termed a public debate about economic Germans problems and their solution...
...Golding, described as in charg« -of ^Tb"any's superexperts, by a stenographer, the Civil Service Commission and Mr...
...Will she thereby cease being an amateur...
...After asking where one's "religious political consciousness may be expected to halt," he declares: "Man's religion may help to form him, but when he is formed his political being should be apart from his religious being...
...The Catholic attitude is no different...
...What to do...
...The Jews, for their part, point to the labors, the talents and the vast sums which, thus encouraged, they have expended...
...Zuckerman's cry: "Would that the Labor government had revoked the Balfour Declaration and left immigration and colonization free...
...Such an attack—bayonets, tanks, airplanes and everything—must be almost too much for Mr...
...Moody accept the money...
...Alumnae in Though the substructure of the organiSession zation is a network of alumnae federations, each interested in a particular college or academy, union on a nation-wide scale has afforded influence and purposiveness...
...Few can now hope to enter the United States, Canada or the southern republics...
...Now it would seem," says M. Thibaudet, "that the genuine Catholic novel is the novel of souls...
...From this point of view the character of American government could change only if public consciousness became something other than Christian, and adopted as its positive moral content one or the other program of secularism...
...If four days of nonproductivity suffice to make an amateur of a waning star like Mr...
...Indeed, he has gone still farther in his rash audacity and has suspended, for five days each, two officers who apparently believed they owned the universe...
...If they were to institute a search for him, I feel they might eventually find her...
...During past weeks violent critiques of the entire Versailles world order have emanated from Germany...
Vol. 12 • September 1930 • No. 18
