Nice biography of the early days, which also appeared at dandavats.com and planetiskcon.com, and will be surely also published as a book. Seems there were very similar pattern all around the globe when Lord Caitanya's Sankirtan movement started to take off and become established as a worldwide institution. Of course wherever one was involved, one considers this as the most extreme, for me the central Europe pioneering years of wonderful struggle were not exceeded by anything else. In any case what can be added, there was a struggle from outside, could be that this struggle from outside was also triggered, at least slightly, from the struggle inside?
By now, 2008, the movement is now fully turned into a private property with private owners and as a saying goes,


"Because, as it is said in English proverb, “Proprietorship turns sand into gold.” If I, one has got the sense that “I am the proprietor of this business,” so he works very hard, and he turns sand into gold."

Bhagavad-gītā 4.19
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Bombay, April 8, 1974


proprietorship is a great impetus to make things more successful, could be that therefore the resistance from outside was diminished to almost nil?

Only thing lacking behind is a newly composed constitution for the newly restructured ISKCON movement but since there's is an extra website put online, http://www.iskconconstitution.com/, this will also be accomplished soon, as the saying goes, when I'm the proprietor, I work hard.