Some laws have not aged well, and others seem an almost bizarre waste of government resources. But, quaint as they are, they illustrate the flow of time, and the weight of history.
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.