Letters, Feb. 8, 1971

Beware the Brothers

Sir: Presuming in good American fashion that the accused are innocent until proved guilty, my reaction to news stories on a plot to kidnap Henry Kissinger [Jan. 25] and to blow up the heating systems of federal buildings is that the church is alive and well in jail in the persons of the Berrigan brothers and their "co-conspirators."

I thrill to the new pattern these people are shaping, the life-style they are by example inviting others to share at no little cost to themselves. And I note the liveliness of spirit and the...

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