Eight Jews were among the 155 men and women elected to the South African Parliament in last week’s national elections, a survey here revealed today. Eleven Jews were candidates.
Those elected were: Mrs. Bertha Solomon, Mrs. Helen Suzman, Dr. Bernard Friedman, Dr. Henry Gluckman, Morris Kentridge, Abraham Bloomberg and Harry Oppenheimer, United Party; and Leo Lovell, Labor Party. H. Davidoff, a Labor Party member of the last Parliament, who was defeated in this election, is expected to be returned in a pending by-election.
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