Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...villa in suburban Cairo one night last week went Canadian Ambassador Herbert Norman. 47, just back from seeing the Japanese movie, Mask of Destiny, with an Egyptian friend. Alone in the villa's great, silent library after midnight, Norman poured himself some straight shots of whisky while his wife slept in her bedroom. Next morning, weary from months of overwork, heavy-eyed from an almost sleepless night, Norman left home without waking his wife, walked slowly to the eight-story Nile View apartment building near by. Moments after he entered the building, he appeared on the roof-a tall...
Scholar & Diplomat. Born in Japan of Canadian missionary parents, Norman studied at universities in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, and became in his early 30s one of the world's ranking scholars on Japanese history and culture. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1939, and the following year was assigned to the Canadian legation in Tokyo. The Japanese interned him at the time of Pearl Harbor, repatriated him the following year; he spent the rest of the war years at an Ottawa desk...
...Affairs Chief Lester Pearson told a press conference that he had sent a message to Washington, expressing "regret and annoyance" that Norman had been named "on the basis of an unimpressive and unsubstantiated allegation by a former Communist." The charges against Norman, Pearson said, had been investigated in two Canadian security checks, "as a result of which Mr. Norman was given a clean bill of health, and he therefore remains a trusted and valuable official of the department." At the same time Pearson pointedly named Norman to a new and responsible job: chief adviser to the Canadian delegation negotiating...
Lincoln White, State Department Press Officer, denied the Subcommittee's statement that his department agreed to the publication of the allegations on which the Canadian government places partial blame for Norman's death...
Also yesterday, President Eisenhower expressed regret to the Canadian ambassador over Norman's death and the effects it has had on relations between the two countries...