LINGUIST IN DIPLOMACY

ltsit. HERMAN CAMERON 17-1NORMAN. C.B., CS-I.. C.B.E., a former British Minister to Persia, who died in London last week at the age of 83, was the best linguist of his time in the diplomatic service.
Originally a classical scholar. he leer mastered Arabic. Turkish, Russian, Japanese, Persian, French, German, Spanish and Italian, and knew something of Czech and Polish.
He was a first cousin of the late Lord Norman, Governor of the Bank of England.
Educated at Eton and Trinity. Mr. Norman became a Catholic when he was 19.
Joining the diplomatic service in 1894, he served in Cairo, Constantinople. Washington and St. Petersburg. Buenos Aires and Tokyo as Counselor.
With the status of Minister, Mr. Norman served as secretary to the British delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and then went to Teheran.
After leaving the diplomatic service he devoted himself to a wide field of Catholic activity, especially charities.
He was a member of the permanent committee for International Eucharistic Congresses.
He frequently visited Rome and was appointed a Privy Chamberlain of the Cape and Sword by Pope Pius XL He also received the Benemerenti silver medal and the gold cross.
Mr. Norman was unmarried.
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We need to rejoice that there are statesmen in the trade union as well as in the political movement. What we need in addition is a body of commandos inside the trade union movement helping to Olarify ideas, helping to provide leadership at all levels, helping to make that leadership sound by proclaiming principles that are based on the natural law.
That, of course, is the task of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists among the trade unionists as it is of the Association of Catholic Managers and Employers among the employers, and as it is of all of us among all the political parties.
if the trade unions or the parties fail some. at 1east, of the blame rests on us.