Word: silkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aroused, the current Labor government last spring sued to stop the London Sunday Times's serialization of the diaries and Publisher Jonathan Cape's book version. Attorney General Samuel Silkin argued that Cabinet discussions and civil servants' advice must remain forever inviolate to ensure their candor-a contention that the Guardian warned would "put an end to political journalism...