Reading about the Sedition Trial of 1944

I have begin to read the historical and legal literature on the sedition trial of 1944. It's very interesting. It seems to be the general consensus that whatever the merits of the case against the extraordinary collection of defendants might have been, the process was mishandled by the prosecutor and the judge, and was manipulated by political forces at the highest level.

Very early among the legal analyses seems to be:

The Sedition Trial: A Study in Delay and Obstruction
The University of Chicago Law Review , Vol. 15, No. 3 (Spring, 1948), pp. 691-702
(article consists of 12 pages)
Published by: The University of Chicago Law Review
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1597541

There is a great deal more for me to read.

I can scarcely imagine what it must have been like to observe this process during war time. I can imagine even less what it must have been like to have been related to one of the defendants - one identified as one of the crackpots among them, let alone to have shared a name with him as my father and grandfather did. Dad was in secondary school during the war. Grandad was a safety officer in the Ethyl Corporation and from 1943 to 1945 was a Special Assistant to the Director of the Petroleum Administration for War.