FUN AND GAMES

Evening Star, Issue 25714, 11 February 1946, Page 5

FUN AND GAMES

AMERICANS AND GERMANS PADRE'S TRENCHANT CRITICISM LONDON, February 9. Trenchant criticism of the manner in which high American military and Government officers are fraternising with Germans is contained in a letter from an American padre, published in the newspaper ' Stars and Stripes,' reports Reuter's Nuremberg correspondent. The padre, while staying at an hotei in Southern Germany recently encountered a group of German entertainers who were brought to perform at an officers' club. They were 'billeted in the same hotel, ami drank and sang through the night, keeping everyone at the hotel awake. The padre said: "One :olonel froiidked into the hotel with a couple of 4 babes ' and got them billeted and fed. I checked up, and they were not interpreters.'' . An American officer, with awe in his voice, pointed out a Geiman woman to the padre, saying, " She is a counters." i

A Military Government officer had given her a typical letter, requesting that " any help or courtesy extended will be appreciated." "The best American'soldiers a year ago were out fighting the Germans because they thought they were'a master race," said the padre. " Those imposing upon us now aTe the same opportunists who rode the gravy train under the Nazis.".