St. Laurent gov't po! blamed in Norman su The national executive of the Labor Progressive Party, in a press release this week blamed the death by suicide of Dr. Egerton Herbert Norman, Canadian ambas- sador to Egypt, on the St. Laurent government's subservience to the U.S. government. ‘Tt was not only Dr. Norman who was assaulted by the political hatchetmen in I the U.S. millionaire government. It was the national When Dr. Egerton Herbert Norman (top) Canadian ambas- . sador to Egypt, jumped to his death in Cairo last week, Robert Morris (bottom), chief counsel for the U.S. Senate internal security committee and the man most responsible for the political smear campaign that hounded Norman to his death, was coldly unrepentant. He posed for cameramen holding before him a newspaper with headlines announcing Norman’s suicide. sride of all Canadians,” the state- ment declared. “That these self-appointed inquisitors not only brought about the suicide of this gift- ed and sensitive civil servant but expressed callous uncon- cern at the results of their at- tacks upon him shows how bottomless is the contempt of the U.S. Senate investigating committee and the State De- partment for the independence of other countries.” Dr. Norman, distressed over repeated charges by the U.S. Senate internal security com- mittee that he had engaged in Communist activity while a student at Columbia Univer- sity, Jumped to his death from the roof of a nine-storey build- ing in Cairo last week. An ex- pert on Oriental affairs, he was 46 years old. Norman’s name _ was first smeared by the committee in 1951, when he was named as an alleged member of a com- munist study group at Colum- bia university. Later, in 1953, his name came up again when Canada’s Minister for External Affairs, Lester B. Pearson thwarted plans of the commit- tee to import Igor Gouzenko for a grandstand performance. On the latter occasion, Pear- son’s name was also linked with the alleged study circle. Certain right-wing US. newspapers are again hinting that Elizabeth Bentley, a dis- credited stoolpigeon, is pre- pared to testify that Pearson was a source of information “to Communist espionage rings during the last war.” John Foster Dulles, Ameri- can Secretary of State, sent a perfunctory, 28-word letter of condolence to Pearson, headed “Dear Mike.” Canadian gov- ernment officials are reported as privately expressing “amaze- ment” over the coldness of H-test race must he stopped ATLANTIC CITY United Auto Workers presi- dent Walter Reuther said here prior to the opening of the union’s 16th constitutional con- vention that “we have to stop the race on atomic tests, we have a moral obligation to do so, the péople are being sub- jected to radiation dangers.” He said the constant race en- gendered by the Soviet Union exploding a bomb and then the United States or Britain ex- ploding a bigger one must be stopped. ic FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1957 yall LY ( Dulles’ letter and his failure quiry into the publication of to decept responsibility. The Senate internal subcom- mittee consists of nine Demo- cratic and Republican Sena- tors. Senator James O. East- - land of Mississippi is the chair- man and Senator William Jen- ner the ranking Republican. Both are notorious witch-hun- ters. Robert Morris, chief coun- sel to the committee, is re- ported to have been the prime mover in the persecution of Norman, An ex-naval officer, Morris started -his anti-com- munist career during the war when he was in naval inteili- gence. In 1951, he joined the Senate sub-committee and at once became the protege of Senator McCarthy. As soon as the news of Nor- man’s death reached Washing- ton last Thursday, Morris at- témpted to get the committee members to sign a statement saying the charges against the Canadian diplomat were justi- fied. Eastland and Jenner were the only two who gave their signatures. On the same day, Morris posed for news cameramen with a Washington newspaper spread across the chest dis- playing a banner headline on Norman’s death. The New York Times