“…In 1984, Landes [23] showed that normal structure is preserved under a large class of direct sums including all ℓ N p -sums, 1 < p ≤ ∞, but not under ℓ N 1 -direct sums (see [24]). Nowadays, there are many results concerning permanence properties of conditions which imply normal structure, see [7,26,29] and references therein. Several recent papers consider the general case, but always under additional geometrical assumptions, see [4-6, 9, 10, 18, 19, 28, 30].…”