Professor William Kaplan, who wrote a book entitled State and Salvation: The Jehovah’s Witnesses and Their Fight for Civil Rights, said that the “Witnesses were publicly reviled and the object of both state action and private attacks by an intolerant government and an openly hostile citizenry caught up in the passions and patriotism of the war. ”
सरकार का कहना था कि ‘ यहोवा के साक्षियों ने अपने बच्चों को गलत शिक्षाएँ दी हैं इसलिए वे झण्डे को सलामी नहीं देते ना ही राष्ट्रीय गीत गाते हैं ।