European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Most marriages Between gis and girls overseas have turned out Well the big problem is getting the brides transport to the by Jonathan Kilbourn yank staff writer in the band strikes up Here comes the Bride when an army transport docks in the these no one can accuse the musicians of not knowing the for Many a army ship or commercial passenger vessel arrives car try Iii a of i they dont carry to satisfy the Soldier and Sailor so Only some foreign born War brides have entered the and More than gis married girls theres no telling How Many More have become the brides come from practically every part of the world where american troops have been but the problems they face As new Comers to the Are much the All of them must adjust themselves to the customs and conventions of a new considering the Many difficulties that every overseas marriage the number of such marriages that seem successful is pretty it is probably Worth pointing that the comparatively few unhappy unions can be very sad my son was engaged to a girl he had gone through school explained one mothering Law who found herself involved in one of these unhappy they had the same inter and Shes a intelligent they had great plans but while he was Over this the Mother is making the Best of what she considers a bad thing but says that her sons overseas Bride seems to feel 4 that american life is All Leisure and wont lift a Finger to help around the House or even mind her own its of that part of the trouble is of the Mother Laws parents inlaw often seem to find it difficult to accept their sons the habits and speech of another land sometimes set up an immediate prejudice which is hard to but More particularly in the Case of English speaking the trouble is on the other few scottish or Irish girls or those from Down under realize before they arrive in the that the american melting pot Hast always dissolved foreign groups into an English speaking English girl stuck it out in Brooklyn Little Italy for two Only to give it up As a bad Job at last she she  even understand what her inlays were they spoke italian All the she de my Mother inlaw Doest know any had to Point when she wanted me to do maybe the food was but id never eaten anything like and i always thought they resented that i want of their where the  arrangement works out religious reasons Are often a primary cause of from their Dis Tant Vantage Points the boys sometimes dont remember the rigid religious orthodoxy of the folks Back and so All too Seldom have they been Home themselves at the right time to help the situation out there have been a few where racial reasons caused marital mixed marriages which were successful in Britain have run into trouble when the gis brought their wives Back Home to Lack of understanding of the american scene about their husbands Fina Cial All sorts of so Cial and even political play a part when a i overseas marriage goes on the one City girl arrived in Oklahoma and  take the she said her husbands people lived in a welfare workers in the East Are still wondering about another former City girl when she travelled to Kansas found her  had gone All out in an attempt to Welcome her and taken an Allday bus ride from their place in Nebraska in order to meet after two Days on the the girl came Back in two Days later she v fast 6 changed her mind again and entrained for the Midwest to make another go of so far As the welfare people Shes still most of the problems which come up when overseas meet their new families and new environments could be solved by a Little diplomacy if it were not for two factors the average age of the girls is about and their Are usually still Many of the girls Lack and orienting themselves without their husbands help is a pretty Tough just the social workers their very youth is a Factor in their will be in the Long they Are still their manners and habits Are still open to and to most of them being in America is an Advent for everything will be set aright when their i comes they dream of their own old of practically every one of them is Home sick in the worst sort of a Good number of Are either already mothers or soon expect to and that helps give them something to think about and plan for and takes their minds off in the most of the girls have since a Good Many of them come from cities them the Job of readjustment has been a comparatively easy they Are More readily accepted and often find friends from typical of the girls who have made a place for themselves in the business life of a big com pending their husbands return from is 21yearold May Jones to formerly of who used to be a worker in England women land Romano met her Cpl Joseph at a canteen for the forces in Dum another i was bothering my girl As Romano tells the and Joe kindly came Over and put a Stop to they were married a year in april and soon after that Romano went on France and Romano Hast seen him now a clerk in a big new York City she likes it in even More americanized is Joan Irene Lang Rick formerly of Sherwood not and wife of Harry Kane of the Kane has working in a War talks and roots for the Brook Lyn in not she except about the id die for the american overseas brides