The problem children of a housewife, 1914-1916: token money, banknotes and ration cards from 1916 including cards for potatoes, flour, cooking fat, dried vegetables, potatoes, and whole milk. The items that can be identified are from Dresden, Germany, where the card was printed, and are dated February and March, 1916.
Die Sorgenkinder der Hausfrau 1914-1916The problem children of a housewifeReverse:Verlag Carl Döge, Dresden~N.
"Again, in the country districts, anywhere and everywhere, they have only one question : 'When will it end?' But all these desires drift about helplessly. The Censor gags the papers. And the Deputies don't hear and don't want to hear those whom they represent.— If you mention peace, they say you are in the pay of Germany. It is a clever formula."
Extract from the diary of Michel Corday, a senior civil servant in the French government. In preceding entries, Corday had written about the attempts to portray any calls for peace, even those by the Pope, as emanating from Germany.
The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, page 101, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934
1915-08-18, August, Corday, Peace, peace, 1915
