PLAIN PEOPLE: Revolutionary G.l.s

Wrote able New York Timeswoman Anne O'Hare McCormick:

"An Englishman arriving in this country since the [British] election declares that the American soldier had as much to do with the result as any single factor. The American Army camped a long time on British soil, and left a deep and disquieting impression, he said. . . . The lavish habits and easy manners of the G.I. attracted the girls, the girls wanted to marry America, and in the drab, hard years of the war young people in general became discontented with a life...

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