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Such advertisements have appeared regularly in West German newspapers in recent months. Bachelor Gastar-beiter (guest workers) are offering between $870 and $2,200 for frauleins to be their brides. So far, several hundred women are believed to have said I do to these marriages of convenience, bringing with them very valuable dowries: permanent residence and work permits for their husbands. With these documents, Gastarbeiter are almost certain of keeping their jobs in West Germany at a time when Bonn is attempting to reduce the number of foreigners working in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: They Wish Us to Hell | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...German Government's execution of a German Communist last week in Hamburg, and thus arouse individual British Labor sympathizers to chalk London Streets last week with anti-Nazi slogans and hurl bricks through the windows of new German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop. Brick-throwing Laborite Miss Ruth Ellen Gastar screamed in police court: "The people of the British Government wine and dine with Ribbentrop, but the British people do not want these Nazi murderers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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