The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-05-11
German War Brides in us.
 Refuie Russian Propaganda
By RICHARD KAsISCHKE

BFRLIN-Many Germans are get 1 ting the idea that people in America 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 sdope" in letters from daughters and sisters who have married American 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, whether they find American people friendly and life as rich and pleasant as they had expected is important here. The answers to these questions are more than a matter of satisfy ing the curiosity of relatives left be- hind in Germany. The reactions of the German brides are, believe it or not, a substantial issue in the nonstop propaganda war here be- tween Russia and the western pow CTS
 Recently some Russian controlled newspapers, which love to print any thing anti-American, published what they claimed were reports from Ger man brides who complained they were disillusioned atout the U. s. by the "unfriendly treatment they received there from their in-laws and neighbors and wanted to re- turn to their beaten-up- homeland.
 Tn refutation of these reports, which it libeled ''sensationally fic- titious,' the. British licensed news paper Social Democrat collected some letters received from German brides in America who reported they never had it So good. The Social Democrat" observed that official fiugres showed divorces among the German American couples were only two percent, but that its letters re- vealed more than official figures can, how these newly-baked Mrs. are faring tn the new world.1
 The former Anneli7se Lauterbach, 27, who now lives in Dallas, Tex, said of her stay in New York that trips from one section to another of this unimaginably large city seem like 2 world trip and that the sub way 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 cook ing came from the former Helene Grossman, 26, who now lives with her husta and on farm at Hughes, Arkansas. Ut isn't laziness," she wrote, but only comes naturally be- cause all you have to do is heat the food" She also observed from Arkansas that you have no idea about the speed with which people in this country move"
 A former Nurenber bank clerk wrote that she undertook the voyage to the U. S. with apprehension that she would encounter unfriendliness but that Americans she met on ship board put her at ease and her in- laws welcomed her heartily" Liv- ing in Ohio, she wrote: "The people here have beautiful life. They get up early. eat well and wear lovely clothes. I'm very happy"
 Even Susi Evans, 22-year-old for mer secretary now married to an American farmer in Roseboro, N. C., found things marvellous.
 Although Leon and I now live in one room, it is beautifully appoint ed" she wrote. We have a new automobile, like those we in Ger many saw only in American picture magazines. My mother-in -in-law does the washing and ironing and won't let me do a thing. And speaking of ironing-I must tell you about that iron we have. Germans never saw anything like it. It has a little red light on the end and a special switch that one connects for silks, Woolens and linens"