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William Heward Murray Walton, tall, lantern-jawed Church of England vicar, and old Japan hand (17 years), onetime editor of the Japanese Christian Quarterly, told a Church conference at Torquay, England that Japan "did more for the literacy education of her people in 60 years than the British in India in 150 years," blamed atrocities primarily on Japanese police who, he claimed, treated their own people the way they are now treating the enemy, admitted that he prayed daily for Japanese Christians, added: "I pray for victory-and the whopping defeat of Japan...
...months, the No. 1 spiritual adviser to Quebec's isolationist-minded millions had been very close to the war. As Military Vicar of all Roman Catholics in Canada's armed forces, His Eminence Jean Marie Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve had toured battlefronts, talked to fighting men of all ranks. Last week a big Lancaster brought him home...
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...