Major Edgar Baden Isaacs of Durban, one of South Africa’s newly elected Jewish members of Parliament, collapsed and died yesterday while traveling by train to Cape Town to attend the Parliamentary session which opens Fri-Friday; He was 62 years old; Born in Durban, Major Isaacs served with distinction in both world wars; This would have been his first session in Parliament.
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