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...
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