(William) Norman Ewer CBE (22 October 1885[1] – 25 January 1977[2]) was a British journalist, remembered mostly now for a few lines of verse.
He was the only son of William Thomas Ewer, a silk merchant, and his wife Julia Stone, born at Hornsey in north London.
His employer de Forrest opposed the United Kingdom's participation in World War I; Ewer was a pacifist and conscientious objector, and a lecturer for the Union of Democratic Control.
[1] Lansbury thought highly of his stamina: he is quoted as saying Ewer "has the constitution of a horse and the capacity of going without food of a camel.
[1] Ewer came onto the management committee of the Herald, representing his employer Maurice de Forrest who was a backer of the paper.
[11] Callaghan and Morgan in a paper of 2006 criticised aspects of Madeira's interpretation, in particular with respect to the characterisation of the FPA, founded in 1919 as a press agency, and in his acceptance of the MI5 narrative.
[13] Ewer has been mentioned in connection with Clare Sheridan (1885–1970), writer and sculptor, who passed on comments of Winston Churchill, her relative.
They did arrest Dale and the two Special Branch officers who had leaked operational details, Inspector Hubert van Ginhoven and Sergeant Charles Jane.
Declassified archives show that Ewer's anti-communist works were promoted and funded by a propaganda wing of the British Foreign Office, the Information Research Department (IRD).