POPE JOHN’S HEALTH
“Given Six Months To Live” (N.Z.P.A. -Reuter—Copyright) ROME, Dec. 12. The chief of the Vatican press office, Dr. Luciano Casimirri, last night said he had nothing to add to official reports issued that Pope John is suffering from gastric trouble and anaemia. “Nobody can predict that the Pope or anyone else will die at a given time,” he said. Dr. Casimirri was commenting on a Swiss newspaper’s report that the Pope’s doctors had given him only six months to live. The Rome correspondent of the Basle “National-zeitung” quoted well-informed sources as saying Pope John's personal doctors had begged him to rest or he might live only three months.
The Pope was reported to have replied: "If I am given the choice of living six months longer as a sick man or fulfilling my duty for only three months, you know me well enough to be aware what I have chosen.”
Admiral Visits Auckland.— Rear-Admiral D. M. Tyree, commander of the United States Navy support force in the Antarctic since 1959, paid his last call to Auckland yesterday before leaving New Zealand tomorrow.—(PA.)
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 30004, 13 December 1962, Page 8
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