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...JESSICA MITFORD has written a book about the trial of the Boston Five anti-war conspirators, who also existed in that other time when people did and thought strange things to end a war that was still on the upswing. The days of the Resestance and self-sacrifice rather than confrontation...
...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...
...TRIAL OF DR. SPOCK, THE REV. WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR., MICHAEL FERBER, MITCHELL GOODMAN, AND MARCUS RASKIN by Jessica Mitford. 272 pages. Knopf...
...watching public and reporters awaiting the showdown fully expected a landmark trial that would probe the right to dissent under the First Amendment, examining the morality and legality of political conscience exercised as a conspiracy to encourage defiance of the law. Not least among the reporters was Jessica Mitford. A voluble supporter of liberal causes and noted gorer of sacred cows, she arrived in Boston with her pro-Spock sympathies clearly showing, and she joined the defendants in hoping that the legality of the Viet Nam war could be exactingly explored. The hope was dashed when Judge Francis Ford quickly...
...Miss Mitford was left with a hollow and partisan book...