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al uShd VI INCUI dokd-lldQ olSIlCu,
while Senators Watkins of Utah,
Republican, and Erwin of North
Carolina and Nicely of West Vir-
ginia, Democrats. had not.
The committee counsel issued
the statement in an unusual
hallway meeting on the third
floor of the Senate ONCE Build
ing at midafternoon yesterday.
More than two dozen reporters,
including a number of audibly
angry Canadians. crowded
around him as he read the state
ment. At the end of the meeting,
one reporter shouted:
Who's your next victim?"
Mr.. Morris also was asked
whether he felt any respon-
sibility in connection with Mr..
Norman's death, and replied
that the statement speaks for
itself"
The Norman case originally
came up In testimony by DR..
Karl Wittfogel in 1851 in con-
nection with the subcommittee
inquiry into the Institute of
Pacific Relations. DR.. Wittfogel,
a Columbia University professor.
identified Mr.. Norman as a
member of a MarxiSt study
group.
Cleared by Canadians
Following this charge, the
Canadian government conducted
two separate investigations Of
Mr.. Norman and gave him COM
plete clearance.
Then. last month. the subcom-
mittee held closed hearings to
hear testimony by John K. En-
merson. American counselor of
Embassy at Beirut. Lebanon.
Mr.. Emmerson testified on
March IL that he had known Mr..
Norman in Japan. where they
were engaged in counterintelli-
gence work for the headquarters
Of Gen. Macarthur, Supreme
Commander of Allied Powers
(SCAP). He said they worked
closely together and added that
he had observed nothing in Mr..
Norman's conduct that would
lead him to suspect the Canadian
Of Communist sympathies.
Counsel Morris then read into
the record what he termed "a
United States Government exec
utive agency security report
which indicated that DR.. E. Her
bert Norman had been recalled
from Japan when his govern
ment discovered certain Com
munist connections, specifically
with Israel Halperin, a Canadian
citizen of Russian parentage,
who was one of the principals
implicated in the exposed Soviet
military intelligence operation in
Canada"
The committee counsel also
charged that Norman was iden-
tified in February OF 1910 as a
m e m Der of the Communist
Party; that one of the witnesses
to Mr.. Norman's marriage in
1885 was a known Communist.
and imputed to Mr.. Norman an
unusual interest in the personal
effects OF a Japanese citizen SUBJ
sequently identified before the
Committee as a Red.
Storm Of Protest
A report OF the March IL
closed hearing was made public
the following day and created
a storm Of protest in Canada.
On March Is. Foreign Minister
Pearson told Commons that the
record contains a great many
innuendoes and insinuations
that Norman was a Communist.
We knew all about these charges
which were made years ago in
Washington. as a result OF which
Mr.. Norman was subjected, in
his own interests and in the
public interest and with his own
approval and full cooperation.
to a special and exhaustive Sc
curity check. the results OF
which were announced in two
press releases by our depart
ment on August 8. 1851. and Au.
gust "a; 1851"
The check. Mr.. Pearson said :,
confirmed Mr.. Norman in his
governments eyes "as a devoted,
efficient and loyal official Of the
government.
Mr.. Pearson concluded his
statement to Commons with
these sharp words.
These ISLANDERS and unsup-
ported insinuations against him
contained in this United States
senatorial subcommittee report
we can treat with the contempt
they deserve.
On March is. on the heels OF
these outraged cries from the
north. the State Department is
sued a statement disassociating
the executive branch from the
subcommittee's charges.
Then. on March 81. the SUBJ
committee met again 10 hear
u Emmerson change and eW