The A. P. Suit In the eight months since the Government filed its anti-trust suit against Associated Press (TIME, Sept. 7), the clamor of A.P.'s defense has been incessant and loud. Fortnight ago came the first clear non-A.P. voice. Up rose 57-year-old Zechariah Chafee Jr., ruddy Harvard law professor and one of the nation's great authorities on free speech. His statement came near not being published at all. Behind this controversy was a history important to all newspaper-reading citizens. The A. P. suit was filed Aug. 28, 1942, shortly after pro-New Deal Publisher Marshall Field tried to get...
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