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4 unusual facts about E. Herbert Norman


E. Herbert Norman

Allegations centred on his involvement with various communist societies during his university years, and suspicion of various decisions he helped make during the Japanese occupation, including allowing the Japanese Communist Party to continue while other parties were banned.

In 1957, these suspicions were revived in the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security.

Robert J. Morris

One of the subcommittee's most notorious events was the April 1957 suicide of E. Herbert Norman, the Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, after Norman found out that the subcommittee was reopening an earlier investigation regarding his involvement in a Communist study group.

Sanzo Nosaka

After the World War II, Nosaka's return to Japan was facilitated by E. Herbert Norman, the Canadian representative to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, who may also have been a Soviet spy.



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