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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Moscow had sent Professor Sergei Davidenkov to attend Stalin's "very dear Comrade Thorez." Davidenkov disagreed with the French doctors, said that he would personally guarantee a cure in a Moscow clinic. Thorez' wife, Communist Deputy Jeannette Vermeersch, took the hint and publicly asked the Soviet to treat her husband. The Red Foreign Ministry made the request official, the French government agreed and Thorez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Plane to Moscow | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

While the Communists were still muttering over the implications of this, David hit them again, out of his knowledge that Moscow had sent Professor Davidenkov, Russian heart specialist, to attend ailing Maurice Thorez. Next morning every registered doctor in Paris received a Paix et Liberté pamphlet. "A snub to the medical profession!" cried the tract. "Are French doctors unworthy or inefficient?" Yelped the Communist press: "Neo-Goebbelism . . . David is a Wall Street pawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Dove That Goes Boom | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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