MGR. GODFREY AT PADLEY Preaches at. Annual Pilgrimage to Martyrs' Shrine

Mgr. Godfrey, Apostolic. Delegate to this country, preaching at Padley last week. referred to the bringing heck of the Muss to Forney as a symbol of the Resurrection.
The scene was one not easily forgotten. The afternoon was sunny and bright, with here and there dark clouds hanging over the hills surrounding the little Derbyshire shrine.
The grounds outside the chapel made a natural arena for some 1,500 pilgrims, who had come from far and near to honour the memory of the martyrs— the Venerable Niel-mine Garlick and the
Venerable Robert Ludlaw, who, in 1588, were arrested simply because they were Massing priests, taken to Derby and executed on St. Mary's Bridge.
An altar had been erected at one side of the chapel—where later the Bishop of Nottingham gave Benediction—and a large, fiat stone raised high above the ground formed a natural pulpit for Mgr. Godfrey.
There stood the Archbishop—the bright colour of his robes standing out against the wooded hills, which three and a half centuries ago had seen two priests humiliated and led away to their death.
" I AM GLAD TO BE HERE" Mgr. Godfrey said: " I am glad to be here for several reasons—first, because the martyrs died in defence of the spiritual prerogative of the Vicar of Christ, our Holy Father the Pope. and the Holy Father i in the midst of you to-day, through his representative.
" Secondly, because Derbyshire is the county of the martyr of the Venerable English College in Rome, where I spent so many years—Blessed Ralph Sherwin.
" The Blessed Christopher Buxton, too, another old student of the English College, was a pupil of Nicholas Garlick, of whom we are all thinking to-day.
PROFOUNDLY CONVINCED "A third reason I am glad to he here is because I am profoundly convinced that great blessings will come to this country if devotion to the Blessed Martyrs is fostered, especially in those places where they died, and where they were horn, and where they ministered to the faithful, . . ."
dation to the Labour Party to accept the Communist offer of affiliation by 56 votes to 23. This did not prevent a report that the Communist Party is again to approach the Labour Party executive. But in spite of the " Marxist " representation on the executive there is no likelihood of the party's altering its decision.
In Zurich the British Trade Unions tried to persuade the to invite the Soviet Unions to join, but opposition came from most of the smaller States and the American Federation of Labour.
Several speakers roundly declared that the Government-controlled Soviet Unions were no freer than the Nazi Labour Front.
Jouhaux of France, who, according to the Journal de Debats, was acting under direct orders from Moscow, pleaded ineffectively for the recommendation.
Bon Mot From Belgium
But fiery M. Mertens, of Belgium, declared that " every time we held out a hand the Russians spat on it," and pointed out that if Russia wished to collaborate on the political plane her Unions could apply for affiliation.
The Communist Press bemoaned the rejection of the motion, and declared on the one hand that the smaller States refused to vote for it because they distrusted the " appeasement" policy of Britain and France, and on the other that the motion would have been carried had Austria, China and Spain been allowed to vote.
The atheist wing of the Left parties, after an exciting twelve months of antiCatholic agitation, is having a rest. This month's journals provide only a rather feeble attempt from Mr J. W. Poynter, an indefatigable pursuivant, in the Socialist Vanguard.