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...speaking of the government's method of prosecution and the trial procedure, Miss Mitford sticks on the crucial issue of political trials. In this case the defendants are tried under the traditional catch-all political repression charge of "conspiracy" for what are essentially their anti-government beliefs. The Conspiracy charged by the government was in effect the Resistance itself, and the five figurehead defendants were held responsible for the entire draft-card burning, induction-refusal movement. One assumes that the government could not tolerate the tremendous anti-war moral tide unless it could be boiled down to a conspiracy. That...
...book uses the vehicle of "the court-room drama"-which is always gripping in a Perry Mason versus D. A. way. Miss Mitford uses it only for its natural excitement and writes an impassioned, sympathetic and very original view of both the strange ways of jurisprudence and the anti-war stance of the defendants. This makes for enjoyable and uplifting reading. The Ghandian stance of kindly Dr. Spock-who is in a very real sense the father of us all-is rare in America. Miss Mitford herself seems to speak as an adult resistance supporter and explains the defendants...
FURTHER. Miss Mitford outlines so clearly the prejudicial handling of the case by Judge Francis Ford that any lingering belief in equal justice under law is mercifully put to rest. Ford formulated his closing charge to the jury as a barely-veiled order to convict. But we later learn that this becomes the grounds for the appeal that set Spock and Ferber free. Why the other two were not also freed is bewildering save with the sensibility to the workings of the law that the book conveys...
Teacher and former student became acquainted, and "Maureen" confided the story of the "Wendells." "Their lives pressed upon mine eerily," says Miss Gates, "so that I began to dream about them instead of about myself, dreaming and redreaming their lives. Because their world was so remote from me, it entered me with tremendous power, and in a sense the novel wrote itself...
...tradition so much as a fairly realistic assessment of modern life." The assessment is based on six years of living and working in Detroit before she and her husband Raymond Smith moved across the river to Ontario, where they both teach literature at the University of Windsor. Detroit is Miss Gates' ideal American city of the '60s. It is, she says, a city so transparent "that one can see it ticking...