BUT IT WAS A HARD WEEK for the politicians to
keep the headlines. On Sunday morning, while three hundred Methodists were conducting a service in the next-door room, the World Cup was stolen from its display case in the Central Hall, Westminster. 'It could only have hap- pened in England' was the general foreign comment and most people at home were inclined to agree—especially Major John Schilizzi, from whose home near Banbury a famous racing trophy, the Mackeson Gold Cup, was stolen a day later. On Tuesday the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Michael Ram- sey, flew to Rome trailed by a band of out- raged Irish protestants for courtesy talks with the Pope. The Irishmen wore special protest waistcoats bearing the slogan 'courtesy visit a curse' and 'Archbishop Ramsey a traitor to protestant Britain.' Another churchman in trouble was an Australian fireman, Mr. James Thompson, who threatened to go to court to defend his right to play his cornet both for his local fire brigade and for the Salvation Army.
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