by Eugene Rostow, Professor of Law and Dean of the Law School, Yale University

No legal system can erect an unbreakable wall between the individual and the public interest, valid at all times. Young people may dress up in uniforms and play at being fascists, and this may seem harmless folly in peacetime; but in the thirties, say, when clouds gathered, are we to say that the State should have taken no action against such threats?