It is April fools day, a day on which you need to exercise skepticism regarding even the most serious channels. But real things do happen on April 1st. In fact, quite a few things have happened on this day in 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.