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From a Bavarian lakeside resort, the Stars and Stripes's Sergeant Joe Weston reported how news of the U.S. Army's lifting of the sharply-criticised non-fraternization ban was received by local Fräulein...
...Lifting of the ban failed to rejoice all Germans. Last week several fraternizing Fräulein had their hair cropped in the French style...
From France came Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie, and Mathematician Henri Laugier. Among England's delegation of 20 were Biologist Julian Huxley, Royal Academician Sir Robert Robinson. England would have sent more but for Winston Churchill's last-minute refusal to grant exit visas to some ten men engaged in war research. From the U.S. came 16, including Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley and General Electric's Chemist Irving Langmuir...
...Sheffield, Yorkshire, Mrs. Sarah Meese enfolded and kissed her new daughter-in-law-the former Fräulein Ursula Hosier of Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Said British Mrs. Meese to German Mrs. Meese: "You are lovely. I'll look after you. Don't worry. I'll make you happy...
...where in peacetime the British Mediterranean Fleet used to anchor on its annual vacation cruise, was captured by a parachute unit dropped there by mistake. In sun-drenched Hyères, where the girls are dark and Saracen and the streets are lined with palms, the Germans still held. Fréjus, where Julius Caesar planted supplies for Gaul, was taken the first day. Saint-Raphael, a modest fishing village gone garish with the trappings of a modern coast resort, was quickly captured, too. But Cannes, its luxury hotels, meager beach, its dreams of gambling and fish, yachts and flowers...