Milford chronicle., 1948-04-23
Americans Can't Cook
Say German War Brides
BY RICHARD KASISCHKE
AP NeWsfeatures

BERLIN - Many Germans are
getting the idea that people in Am
erica don't know or care how to
cook. They just heat up canned
foods. And life. and movement in
America are so fast it makes your
head SWIM
They are getting the Straight
dope" in letters from daughters,
and sisters, who have married Am
erican soldiers and gone to the U.
S. to live.
Letters from German brides in
America recently have been printed
in newspapers here. News about
how they are getting along, whe-
ther they find American people
friendly and life as rich and pleas
ant as they had expected is inn
pOrtant here.
The answers to these questions
are more than matter of satisfy
ing. the curiosity of relatives left
behind in Germany. The reactions
of the German brides are, believe
it or not, substantial issue in the
nonstop propaganda war here be-
tween Russia and the western pow
ers.
Recently some RussiOn-COntrOll-
ed newspapers, which love to print
anything apti-American, published
what they claimed were reports
from German brides who com
planned they were disillusioned
about the U. S. by the "unfriendly
treatment" they received here
from their in-laws and neighbOrs
and wanted to return to their beat
en-up homeland.
In TefutatiOn of these reports
which is labeled "seusatiOnally
fictitious" the British-licensed
newspaper Social Democrat" col
leCted some letters received from
German brides in America who re-
ported they never had it so good.
The Social Democrat" observed
that official figures showed divorces
among the German-American cOu-
pies were only two percent, but
that its letters revealed more than
official figures can, how these new
ly-baked Mrs. are faring in the new
world"
The former Anneliese Lauter-
bach, q, who now lives in Dallas
Tex, said of her stay in New York
that trips from one section tC
another of this unimaginably large
city seem like a world trip" and
that the subway cars went so fast
she became seasick. She observed
that nobody seems to do any
cOOking-yOu get your food out OF
cans"
The same observation about
cooking came from the former Hell
en- GTOssman, 26, who now lives
with her husband on a farm al
Hughes, Arkansas. ut isn't lazi.
ness" she wrote, but only comes
naturally because all you have t.
do is heat the food" She also oh,
served from Arkansas that "yOI
have no idea about the speed will
which people in this country
move"
A former Nuremberg bank clerl
wrote that she undertook the vOy
age to the U. S. with apprehension
that she would encounter unfriend
illness but that Americans she me
on shipbOard put her at ease anC
her in-laWs welcomed her heart
ily." Living in Ohio, she wrote
"The people here have a beautiful
life. They get up early, eat well ant
wear lovely clothes. I'm very hap
py."
Even Susi Evans, 22-year-OlC
former secretary now married Il
an American farmer in ROsebOro
~ c., found things marvellous.
Although Leon and l now livt
in one room, it is beautifully ap
pointed" she wrote. "We have
new automobile, like those we il
Germany saw only in American
picture magazines. My mOther-in
law does the washing and irOnin,
and won't let me do a thing. AnC
speaking or irOning-I must tel
you about that iron we have. Ger
mans never saw anything like ii
1t has a little red light on the enc
and a special switch that one con
meets for silks, wOOlens and lin
ems"
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