MARSHAL PETAIN SERIOUSLY ILL
(Rec. 10 p.m.) PARIS, April 10. Marshal Petain, who is 85 this month, Is St a low ebb, with congestion of the lungs, and has taken a turn for the worse tn the test two days. He is in a bartly-fufn'shed pr son room on the lie d’Yeu off the French coast k His wife. Artny doctors, and nursing nuns are m Constant attendance. He was sentenced to death in August, 1945, for heading the Vichy Government, but General De Gaulle commuted the sentence to life impriaonmerit
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26393, 11 April 1951, Page 7
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