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...Zechariah H. Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law and head of the United Nations subcommittee on Freedom of Information, lashed out Tuesday at Russian charges of American "imperialism." The action took place in a U.N. session at Lake Success...
Speaking in the Rindge Tech auditorium, Stokes shared the platform with Laurence E. Spivak '21, publisher of the American Mercury, and Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Langdell Professor of Law, in a discussion of the question" Is the American Press Free and Responsible...
...around the wide table made no set formalized speeches, pillowed no punches in diplomatic niceties. They flubbed parliamentary procedure and generally had a fine time talking frank talk. With one exception, they were men who had worked long at journalism. The exception was tweedy, dry-humored Zechariah Chafee Jr., Harvard professor of law, and one of the foremost U.S. authorities on press freedom...
...Zechariah Chafee patiently countered: to omit censorship from its discussions would leave the conference "playing Hamlet without a Prince of Denmark." Lomakin smiled. Chafee conceded that some U.S. newspapers might slant the news or be guilty of inaccuracies and omissions, but Government selection of what is news "could be equally wrong." He smiled wryly at Lomakin as he quoted Russia's Leo Tolstoy: "The thought of censorship hangs over me like a cloud, and the years slip by with nothing done...
Tonight's forum is the first in a series to be presented by a group of 500 Law School students dedicated by Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law, to those 93 law students and graduates "who did not return from...