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THE TABLET • 23 JULY 1966
THE TABLET • 22 JULY 1916
T
he International Catholic
Organisations conference
has never met in England until
this year, and so we were, in a
way, on trial on ... 13 July, when
the delegates began to arrive at
St Mary’s Training College,
Strawberry Hill. How fortunate
that there was somewhere like
Strawberry Hill in which to
house the conference and
delight the delegates. Few of
them had any idea of what to
expect, and the sight of the “gay
parterre, the chequer’d shade /
The morning bower, the ev’ning
colonnade” not to mention the
T
he Rev. Dr E.A. Burroughs,
in a long article in the
Guardian on “the war as a
revelation of our spiritual
condition and needs,” comes to
the conclusion that the nation’s
“central trouble is loss of touch
with God and of the sense of
God, with consequent loss at
once of conscience and of a
sense of the whole.” … To show
that he is not exaggerating, Dr
Burroughs quotes letters which
he has received from the front.
A Churchman subaltern writes:
“The ‘Olympians’ look upon the
padre as a necessary evil to be
elegant extravaganzas of
eighteenth-century Gothick, all
spread out under a typical
Thames Valley sky – wide, mild
and bright with sun and
billowing cloud – both
surprised and cheered them
after their passage through
World Cup London.
The opening session held next
day ... was begun by Cardinal
Heenan with dedicatory
prayers which, we noticed, were
judiciously balanced between
Latin and the vernacular, so
that everyone might be happy
in the cosmopolitan assembly.
tolerated. The subalterns look
upon him generally as a fool.” …
Again he quotes a chaplain
(“and anything but a squeamish
chaplain”) as saying, among
other things which he could
hardly quote: “I am honestly
appalled by the language of the
officers out here. One gets out
of touch with the ordinary
Englishman at home – parsons
seldom see people in their
natural and normal conditions.
Here one does with a vengeance,
and one’s first impression is that
indecency is the sole interest of
the ordinary man.”
PUZZLES
PRIZE CROSSWORD
No. 520 | Axe
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6 Name Peter has in church, like after visiting the pub (6)
8 Middle Eastern chap, a Hittite’s first to see the Jordan valley (6)
9 Injection to curb the onset of osteo-arthritis for David’s nephew (4)
10 Benjamin got commercial for the king of Syria (3-5)
11 Ham, a main reason for David’s headquarters being here (8)
14 Biblical flower in early life is white or blue? (4)
15 He was converted in a Handel oratorio about a king (4)
17 Religion’s losing its way: hi, nudism (8)
19 Where Jonah went with sailors belonging to him to get the
ultimate in fish (8)
21 Town in France where Cathars lost senses, trading initially souls
for guns (4)
23 Jehu’s dad’s returned in a book of the Old Testament (6)
The Story of the
King James Version
1611-2011
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4 California’s (whichever way you view it), North America’s “Promised
Land” (6)
5 Lessons for capable to get into even numbers on the golf course (8)
7 Sunday after Sunday, Muslims are banned from abbeys, and one in
particular (7)
12 What’s left of Mac’s band turned up a note in ancient Syrian (8)
13 Israelite king’s army is crossing over a border (7)
16 Regent of Antiochus is an unknown factor for poor Silas
to embrace (6)
18 Being not of this world, took control of America, going after
uranium (6)
20 Spirit of Egypt and India one’s taken on board (4)
22 Saxon read aloud rosary item (4)
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24 Religious ceremony on Thursday for peacekeepers in an
unstable year (6)
Down
1 Seeing 4 from here needs experimenting, bending over, at first (4)
2 Hezekiah’s secretary’s name an anonymous queen adopted (6)
3 There’s a tiny number in jail, brother, for murder, according to
Genesis (4)
SUDOKU | Challenging
Please send your answers to:
Crossword Competition 23 July
The Tablet, 1 King Street Cloisters, Clifton Walk, London W6 0GY.
Please include your full name, telephone number and email address,
and a mailing address. A copy of Bible: the story of the King James
Version 1611-2011, by Gordon Campbell, OUP, will go to the sender of
the first correct entry drawn at random on Friday 5 August.
l The answers to this week’s puzzles and the crossword winner’s
name will appear in the 13 August issue.
Solution to the 2 July crossword No. 517
Across: 1 Abigail; 5 Diana; 8 Achan; 9 Susanna; 10 Alastor; 11 Amnon;
12 Melita; 13 Bilhah; 16 Cupid; 18 Obadiah; 20 Abilene; 22 Hadad;
23 Lares; 24 Oracles. Down: 1 Amasa; 2 Ishmael; 3 Annotated;
4 Lystra; 5 Dis; 6 Arnon; 7 Araunah; 11 Arimathea; 12 Michael;
14 Heimdal; 15 Loreto; 17 Prior; 19 Hades; 21 Eos.
Winner: Fr Kevin Foulkes, of Aspull, Wigan.
Each 3 x 3 box, each row
and each column
must contain all the
numbers 1 to 9.
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