Later, in 1972, a well-informed agent of the security service acknowledged: “We see that making announcements about the court trials of Jehovah’s Witnesses and about their propaganda has not weakened the organization but has had just the opposite effect.” Loyalty to Jehovah had won the day!

The brothers patiently repeated their position in court and in letters that they or their legal representatives wrote to the authorities. Finally, in May 1963, seven judges of the Supreme Court ruled: “Dissolving the religious association logically means the banning of every form of organizational activity but does not influence individual or private worship, which is not punishable.”