26 NOVEMBER 1983, Page 21
Sir: Like Auberon Waugh (12 November), I read the Tablet
religiously when Douglas Woodruff was the editor. It then had a splendid masthead motto. It deserves capitals: 'PRO ECCLESIA DEI, PRO
REGINA, ET PRO PATRIA'. What better expression could there be of the proper priorities of every English Catholic?
Tom Burns became the new editor almost surreptitiously. I remember no announce- ment of any change in policy. And the motto suddenly disappeared. And so too now have the Tablet's readers. We knew what the motto meant, as did Douglas Woodruff. And we knew what its disap- pearance meant.
John Braine
15 New End, London NW3