LOVE AND THE ENEMY

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1972, 3 May 1919, Page 3

LOVE AND THE ENEMY

A ooud deal of correspondence 'has latterly appeared in the papers regardin'; British war brides of Xew Zealand soldiers, but there are vet to arrive in the Dominion some German women who have been married by our soldiers. In a letter to hand from Bernsberg, Germany, a, Xew Zealand soldier writes:—“l saw in the paper the other day tho announcement of a wedding between a New Zealand soldier and a German young: lady. They must evidently have understood each other in the universal language/’ he adds. “'What hind of a reception' he thinks his wife is going to get \ w hen he brings her back to New, Zealand is more than I can say; ye it his is not an isolated ease, as there are quite a number of others m the same boat, the husbands being New Zealanders, Canadians, and British. How they will treat these women under the new alien laws is another question. They will look pretty i£ thev are not allowed io take the ldtle maidens home with them. As f saw a ‘Digger’ strolling along the , street beside a fraulem, a German friend pinched my arm and said m his quaint, slow way; ‘The .language) of love h? universal/ ”