New York Times Co. v. United States · ¶123

I strongly urge, and sincerely hope, that these two newspapers will be fully aware of their ultimate responsibilities to the United States of America. Judge Wilkey, dissenting in the District of Columbia case, after a review of only the affidavits before his court (the basic papers had not then been made available by either party), concluded that there were a number of examples of documents that, if in the possession of the Post, and if pub-' lished, “could clearly result in great, harm to the nation,” and he defined “harm” to mean “the death of soldiers, the destruction of alliances, the greatly increased difficulty of negotiation with our enemies, the inability of our diplomats to negotiate....” I, for. one, have now been able to give at least some cursory study not only to the affidavits, but to the material itself. ' I regret to say that from this examination I fear that Judge…

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U. S. Reports, volume 403, at 713 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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