CHURCH PARADE
SIR,—I am rather startled by the vehemence of Mr. C. S. Lewis's protest against Home Guard Church Parades, and can only suppose that they order this matter better in my area than in his—though I understood the ruling ih mine to be general. In our battalion ceremonial parades are forbidden, and a platoon commander must obtain from higher authority permission to order Church Parades. We hold them here occasionally ; they are not compulsory (inasmuch as our scheme of parades allows a man to be absent on one Sunday in four, and o•e man, who has a scruple, drops out at the Church); and they appear to be popular. With the deepest respect I submit to Mr. Lewis, whom I regard as a " spiritual master," that it is not amiss to remind ourselves occasionally in the Home Guard that there is a spiritual background to our modest War Service.—Yours faithfully, BASIL BLACKWELL.
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