Six months ago, Britain's WAAFs (R.A.F. equivalent of WACs) were forbidden to sing the sentimental German marching song Lili Marlene because it might give German prisoners of war ideas about fraternization.
Last week in Britain the idea of P.W. fraternization no longer seemed so objectionable. In the House of Commons, Tory Martin Lindsay rose to suggest that some P.W.s should even be encouraged to stay and marry. "The advantages in adding to our labor forces thousands of industrious, highly skilled workers would appear obvious," he said, "[besides] there is today in Great Britain a 200,000 surplus of women of marriageable age. I...
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