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...necessary dependence on interpreters, the striking number of higher-rank officers in residence with mistresses of vanished Nazi bigwigs, the general air of maladroitness and cumbersome effort had given rise to a bitter description. By Germans, and by many a discerning G.I., the U.S. occupation rule of Germany and Austria was being called "the government of interpreters and mistresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Interpreters & Mistresses | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

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