Word: emmerson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Norman's tense trials in this job were just easing when the charge of Communism fell anew on him. In Washington the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee called in John K. Emmerson, deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Beirut, questioned him about Norman and the 1951 Wittfogel charges. Emmerson, who had worked with Norman in Tokyo and the Middle East, told the committee he had no reason to think that Norman had ever been a Communist. When Committee Counsel Robert Morris released the testimony, there was a new flurry of news stories...