Amazing,
As we know it has always been the JW policy to discourage by various means military service on the part of its members. Admittedly the activities of the Dept of Justice under Attorney General Palmer at this time were more extreme than we would see today. I get the impression from what you write that WT attempts to interfere with conscription were perhaps cruder or less legally savvy than they are today or even during WWII. Do you feel that this was the case? Was this the reason for the indictment? Do you think that given the more sophisticated legal dept that the WT has today, this indictment would not have happened?