I want to welcome everyone back to part seven of my reading of blockade by Anna Eisenmanger.

So I set up a page on my website. It is Freeman Beyond the Wall

dot com forward slash movies and that's where I share the links to

Thomas and my movie reviews that are available on Gum Road. The latest is the

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All right. Let's get into the reading. Hopefully my nose doesn't stuff up like it's been doing lately

while I do this. March 15, 19 19, 19, still no peace. Five months after the armistice, we housewives are suffering more acutely than in the worst war years.

The peace negotiations in which only the representatives of the victorious powers and of the newly founded states of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia take part are constantly adjourned and protracted.

In the Entente camp and more and more voices proclaim that the

murderous blockade is at length to be discounted and discontinued. France who apparently predominates in all these discussions again and again puts forward objections and demands more conferences.

Meanwhile, thousands of invalids, women, children, and infants are perishing of hunger and cold.

They are no longer any swaddling bands in which to wrap the newly born.

People use paper, if they have any, or old scraps of material.

Meat is no longer obtainable through the regulation channels, only dried cod, of which to Viennese have a horror despite their hunger.

The Entente have too little meat themselves to be able to spare a sanny,

an American frozen meat is too expensive at the time it has crossed the ocean and reached Vienna.

I have joined it an appeal from the women of Vienna for the abolition of the meat centers.

The only results of the government control of meat seems to be that the meat

has become quite obtainable. The farmers are clearly opposed to government control and the whole

population suffers from this fact.

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