Dr. Henry Gluckman, chairman of the National Health Commission, has been appointed Minister of Health for South Africa. He is the first Jew to hold a cabinet post in this country.
Dr. Gluckman, who is 52, was born in Russia and came to South Africa as a child. He was educated in Johannesburg and London and served in the Medical Corps in the last war. In this war, he was a member of the Military Medical Directorate, with the rank of Lieut. Col. He was elected to Parliament in 1938 as a member of Prime Minister Smut’s United Party. The local press carries editorials welcoming the appointment.
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