27 MARCH 1953, Page 7

In case anyone has missed the latest achievement of the

Church Militant I reproduce the essence of the story as it appeared in one or two of Tuesday's papers.' It concerns the Rev. Richard Tydeman, vicar of St. John's, Woodbridge, and runs: " The last hymn was being sung when a man rushed into the church, knocked aside two sidesmen and hit Mr. Tydeman. The vicar replied with a straight left. The man was carried from the church by two policemen."

This is what may be termed dramatic descriptive. I remember another rather different case, of which it was stated that the young men wound him up and carried him out. The police probably did it better. They would have had more