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On this Remembrance Day, ACP Ontario cadre honoured Norman Bethune by visiting his resting place in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province and laying a wreath at his University of Toronto statue. Bethune was a thoracic surgeon, WWI medic and Communist Party of Canada member who supported Spanish Republicans and Chinese Communists during their wars against World Fascism, until he died while stationed with the Eighth Route Army. Mao eulogized Bethune in party publications and local newspapers:   "Comrade Norman Bethune, a member of the Communist Party of Canada, was around fifty when he was sent by the Communist Parties of Canada and the United States to China; he made light of travelling thousands of miles to help us in our War of Resistance Against Japan. He arrived in Yenan in the spring of last year, went to work in the Wutai Mountains, and to our great sorrow died a martyr at his post. What kind of spirit is this that makes a foreigner selflessly adopt the cause of the Chinese people's liberation as his own? It is the spirit of internationalism, the spirit of communism, from which every Chinese Communist must learn." - IN MEMORY OF NORMAN BETHUNE, December 21, 1939   Read R.D. Johnston's "An Ode to Norman Bethune" in Red America to learn more about the revolutionary legacy of this Canadian Communist hero.   redamerica.acp.us/articles/a…