BRIDES’ ARRIVAL

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 202, 24 May 1944, Page 8

BRIDES’ ARRIVAL

Australian Girls In U.S.A. The 98 Australian war brides and fiancees who arrived in San Francisco on the same steamer that carried the Commonwealth Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, to the United States have been the subject of much speculation among the average Americans, for they arrived in a new world of abbreviated skirts, strange “trams,” traffic on the “wrong side, ot the street, and real vegetables. The girls from down under came home at last to their “mother-in-law country.” The newffomers were cleared through the Customs, then taken’ in Red Cross buses and limousines to the Hotel Emergency Housing Bureau in San 1 rancisco, and accommodation was arranged for them. They set foot on American soil tor the first time in their lives, with mingled emotions of eagerness and wonder, anxiety and sadness. The girls were eager to eat American food, visit American shops and get a good hot bath.” They were good looking and well dressed, and in appearance they might have walked into the Housing Bureau from Market Street. San IranCisco’s main artery. And their hats ran the gamut from the simple to fantastic-~" even as in the U.S.A. Only their speech —marked with a noticeable accent—set them apart