I agree at once that it is entirely academic to demand freedom of speech in a time of civil war, for the simple reason that no one will pay the slightest attention to the demand; violence and freedom are, a priori, contradictory terms.
Laski acknowledges the futility of demanding freedom of speech during civil war, as violence contradicts freedom.
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Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.
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