Every British soldier in Italy who asks permission to marry an Italian girl gets a form letter from his Senior Chaplain, the Rev. Douglas Hamilton Priest. Excerpts:
"I hear you are thinking of getting married to one of the local girls near where you are stationed. When I say thinking I am half afraid that may be just the thing you have not done. ... In the first place, the girl up till a very short while ago was one of our enemies. ... I know that we ought not to bear grudges . . . but you may find...
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