U.S. Army European Headquarters Command at Frankfurt has a curious regulation. Over the weekend officers may bring German female guests inside their barbed-wire residential compound, on condition that the Fräulein leave by 8:30 Monday morning. (After that, presumably, it constitutes fraternization.)
Last week, in a letter to the Stars and Stripes, a British girl asked some embarrassing questions: "Why should German girls be allowed to live in the compound with American officers? I know of several . . . men I consider to be rotten to the core. Why bother to have [a] compound when the whole thing is such a farce?"
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