Word: vicars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a London hospital chaplain recently appealed for books, tobacco and other comforts for Nazi prisoners of war, many a sporting Briton responded. But not the Rev. Harold Green, vicar of Ipswich's St. Nicholas' Church. Wrote he: "Having seen your tenderhearted request for comforts for the blasphemers of God and butchers of men, I herewith send a small comfort which I am sure will be good for them. . . ." The Vicar's contribution was a tin of rat poison...
...Idle and ill-mannered jesting ... deplorable especially in a clergyman," observed the vicar's bishop last week. But Vicar Green was not particularly upset by the censure. He was, in fact, quite busy reading some 300 approving letters. He also had a call from a Canadian soldier representing 900 wounded Canadians; they wanted the vicar to know they were...
Explaining that he had merely wanted "to point a moral," Vicar Green added: "These Nazis, who have been guilty of every kind of villainy, should not be pampered. I repeatedly pray 'God save us from ourselves.' We must be the chosen race or we could never perpetrate the idiocies we do and survive...
Parson Weems sold his books at fairs, races, sittings of county courts from New York to Georgia-between times "beating up the headquarters of all the good old planters and farmers . . . regardless of roads horrid and suns torrid." He sold Paradise Lost, The Vicar of Wakefield, Robinson Crusoe, Cook's Voyages, the works of Voltaire, Tom Paine and Bunyan and Bard's Compendium of Midwifery, which he touted as "the grand American Aristotle...
...lack food and medical supplies. Warsaw is lying in ruins. The Germans are murdering the wounded in the hospitals. They are driving women and children before their tanks as screens. Our sons are dying. The help that has come from Great Britain is insufficient. Hear us -Holy Father, Vicar of Christ...