HUNDREDS OF WAR BRIDES STRANDED IN NEW YORK
(Special t'orrespoiKlont). 1
BEITISH GIELS PAIL TO . - FINP G,I. HUSBANDS.
Received Wednesday, 9.5 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 8. G.I. brides (tlie wives of American soldiers) who a few months ago were demonstrating in London urging the Governmen't to get them to America with their' families are not "all living happily for ever after. ' ' One who retumed to Northampton after five .months in the United States declared there were many British girls stranded in New York after vainly trying to find the men they married in Britain. Many were staying in the Aberdeen Hotel and were allowed by the United States Government ten shill--ings for food and ten shillings for sleeping accommodation daily. The Daily Mail's New York eorrespondent declares that there are hundreds of British war brides stranded and living in sqttalor in New York. They are girls who have been abandoned by their G.I. husbands or who found life in America unbearable. Some have never seen their husbands since they said goodbye to them in England. It is estimated that 25 per cent. of the marriages hetween British girls and American soldiers are ending in failure.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 January 1947, Page 5
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