WOMAN MINISTER.
FIRST APPOINTMENT MADE IN FRANCE. PRELUDE TO WOMANHOOD SUFFRAGE.. (Received Wednesday, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, May 27. The “Daily Herald” says it is announced that M. Blum is appointing Dr. Irene Joliot Curie, the thirty-nine-year-old daughter of Madame Curie, co-discoverei of radium, as France’s first woman Minister, probably Undersecretary of Education or Health. She jointly won the Nobel Chemistry Prize last year. The “Herald’s” Paris correspondent declares that the appointment preludes womanhood suffrage in France.
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Wairarapa Age, 28 May 1936, Page 5
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