 These and other cases of suppression showed the need to strengthen the protection of the free press.A committee, with former liberal minister of justice Natanael Gärde as chairman and such well-known journalists and authors as the socialist Rolf Edberg, and the liberals Knut Petersson and Axel Brusewitz among the members, wrote a proposal for a revision of the Constitutional Law on Freedom of Printing.This introduced a far stronger protection of the distribution of news, and it was with a few changes approved by parliament.