bout de papier, Volume 31, Issue No. 1, 2020
bout de papier, Volume 15, Issue No. 2, 1998
The Traitor Who Wasn’t
Herbert Norman was a senior and respected Canadian diplomat hounded to his suicide, in Cairo in 1957, by American McCarthyites seizing on his dalliance with the ideas of communism. Norman was interested in Marxist thought, and probably remained a moderate socialist throughout his life… but he was not a life-long communist and did not betray […]
From Nihon to Nasser: Herbert Norman’s Diplomacy During the Suez Crisis
FROM TOKYO TO CAIRO Much has been written about Herbert Norman in the context of his contributions to our understanding of Japanese history and the extended anti-Communist witch hunt in the United States that eventually caused him to take his own life.…
A Tribute to Herbert Norman
Jeremy Kinsman, then Canada’s Ambassador to Italy, spoke at the tribute to Herbert Norman. The text follows:
