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Norman Bentwich
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “british barrister and legal academic who served as legal secretary and the first attorney-general of mandatory”. Today it says “british barrister and legal academic”.
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Norman de Mattos Bentwich (28 February 1883 – 8 April 1971) was a British barrister and legal academic. He was the British-appointed attorney-general of Mandatory Palestine and a lifelong Zionist . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.).
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british barrister and legal academic who served as legal secretary and the first attorney-general of mandatory
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british barrister and legal academic
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