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A telegram from [[red underlined] George, [[/red underlined]] from England, telling he is well but letters ^ [[insert]] and cables [[/insert]] should be addressed to [[underlined in red]] Paris. [[/red underlined]] This seems to indicate that [[red underlined]] he will soon be again in France. [[/red underlined]] A long letter of [[red underlined]] Nina [[/red underlined]] who has been sworn in for [[red underlined]] four years [[/red underlined]] as a [[red underlined]] third [[strikethrough]] Ye [[/strikethrough]] class Yeoman [[/red underlined]] in [[red underlined]] the U.S. Navy. [[/red underlined]] Seems well pleased with her new job. and her whole [[red underlined]] letter seems to [[/red underlined]] breathe a [[red underlined]] new spirit. [[/red underlined]] It looks as if this is [[red underlined]] the best thing [[/red underlined]] ever [[red underlined]] happened to her.  Will teach her many things and more particularly respect for useful work. [[/red underlined]] [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] 
Albert's child also ill with [[red underlined]] influenza.  [[/red underlined]] All have to be treated at home.  The [[red underlined]] hospitals [[/red underlined]] are [[red underlined]] overcrowded [[/red underlined]] and there is insufficiency of nurses and physicians everywhere.
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Oct 29.
[[red underlined]] Austria Hungary's minister Andrassy humbly begs for armistice to Wilson [[/red underlined]] but in so far as [[strikethrough]] Hungar [[/strikethrough]] Hungary has separated there is no longer an Austria-Hungary and the dillema is that Andrassy speaks [[red underlined]] for a country that no longer [[/red underlined]] exists.  [[red underlined]] Germany's condition is [[/red underlined]] even more ambiguous. 
Received an [[red underlined]] excellent letter [[/red underlined]] from [[red underlined]] Nina [[/red underlined]] who seems happy at the feeling that she is doing useful work and expressing an excellent attitude of mind. Seems to be in a better attitude than I ever have known her.
[[strikethrough]] Oct 30. another of the unusually warm even sultry days we have had since more than a week [[/strikethrough]]
This evening was a [[red underlined]] guest at the dinner of the Council on Foreign Relations [[/red underlined]] at the Metropolitan Club.  Other guests were Louis [[strikethrough]] Chev [[/strikethrough]] [[red underlined]] Chevrillon [[/red underlined]] a french ^ [[insert]] mining [[/insert]] Engineer, formerly