Reposts Stalin Is Paralysed
RIO DE JANIERO. Tue. (I p.m.).— Senor Mario Pimentel Brandao, Brazilian Ambassador to Moscow for 18 months before Brazil broke off diplomatic relations with the Soviet recently, said today that M. Stalin was suffering from paralysis of the right side. He.walks with crutches. He is gravely ill and on a recent visit to Lenin’s tomb had to be helped up the steps by two persons. Senor Brandao, who has just returned from Moscow, said M. Molotov undoubtedly would succeed M. Stalin. The Swedish cancer specialist. Professor Elis Berven, who denied on January 4 that he had been called to Moscow to treat M. Stalin or a prominent person, has arrived in Moscow. He admitted that he had been invited ’o Moscow for consultations on a cancer case, but said he could not disclose the patient’s name.
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Northern Advocate, 7 January 1948, Page 5
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