User:GerryThegremlin/Sandbox

Greetings

The sole purpose in creating this wikipaedia account is to tell you something about the life and deeds of Daniel Norman - who negociated a trade deal that I believe provided a basis for the changes in the East / West balance of power that freed more people than Nelson Mandela. much of the facts I know firsthand as I was there. Understanding the effects of that negociation will require a lot of historical and political savvy - best of luck there.

rough draft in progress

THE LIFE AND DEEDS OF DANIEL NORMAN - 1913 to 1979

Daniel Norman ended a long and productive working life as the London Editor of Le Figaro, the French international daily newspaper that started out as a revolutionary broadsheet and that grew to represent opinion at the heart of French Bourgeois Administration

He started life on the other side of Europe in April 1913 in the Moldovan town of Iassy in Romania. The family Nuselovici was primarily Jewish and had been right at the top of Romanian Society for some time, and had served the Romanian Royal Family and given the world one Major composer, Maximillian Bruch who settled in England and Directed the Liverpool Philarmonic in Victorian times.

Mr Norman had already decided the basis of his beliefs when very young and held onto them until he died and probably into any beyond that he did not believe in. He was a confirmed Atheist and Socialist and while gaining his degree in Law he served the Romanian Socialist Youth movement as General Secretary and was the General Secretary of the town's Soialist Party (I assume that was Iassy too) and considered it his duty to resist the growing influence of the Nazis at home and abroad. He was in no doubts as to the danger they posed to civilisation and co-founded and edited a newspaper that was to become a major Romanian Daily

To come:

Socialist Party in Exile - Internationals and the Common European socialist Market

France, War Service,  the Greatest Escaper of all Time? Honours with the Foreign Legion

The British connection

Writing for Les Preuves, Punch,  the New Statesman,  and Brit Dailies

Marx and Soviet reality

Le Figaro

Harold Wilson

British Airospace

The deal that changed the world

Honors listing, requests to join governments

Reaction in the British Parliament

Wilson and Norman hounded by political enemies and those who should have been their friends

The sacrifices

Their effect

So who got the credit? And what happened?

That's History

to be continued and expanded at leisure

GerryThegremlin

re verification. Most of this was related to me by Daniel Norman himself at the time or overheard when he was on the phone to persons mentioned. Given he is now dead (Middlesex Hospital of cancer) and I read some of his personal documents but have no access to what remains of his personal effects. All the documents I had relating to him were stolen so I cannot offer such. What I can offer is simply my assessment of the man and his character - which was impeccable. I must be my own verification if you like

I would hope that others who might have confirmation whether in documentation or personal interaction would be willing to contribute. There may be some still living who knew what happened and I do not believe that any of those involved in the negociations would now wish to distort or even bury the facts

The Deal itself was significant enough that senior people in the KGB and the Kremlin with oversite would remember - those that are still living, as well as Harold Wilson's aides and likely a few others in the British Government and Civil Service at the time

And at the time Daniel Norman could not speak out without turning an opportunity into a disaster - hope you will bear with me anyways, more later