The Loyalties of E. Herbert Norman

Reviews the life and work of Canadian diplomat E. Herbert Norman, who died by suicide during the Cold War after being hounded for years as a suspected agent of the Soviet Union (the US Senate had recently reopened its investigation). Concludes that Norman was not a Soviet agent nor was he disloyal, despite his communist sympathies while a student at Cambridge University in the 1930s. The report, which was commissioned by the Canadian government, is based on ministerial records, RCMP files, Norman's personal correspondence, interviews, and a literature review. Includes two appendices.