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Show YANK GIRLS NEED FEAR NO RIVALRY WITH THE AEF IN ITALY. Soldiers Sol-diers being the sentimental suckers they are, a lot of good old fashioned family fights in future years probably prob-ably will grow out of an erstwhile Doughboy's ecstatic reminiscing about the women of Rome. So perhaps it's wiser at this point to give the public and America's outraged womanhood an inside look at this Roman subject. 1. Women of Rome are not necessarily neces-sarily more beautiful than the worn-. en back home. 2. Compared to anything feminine the soldiers have seen since the Statue of Liberty, the women of Rome are terrific, enticing, allur ing and colossal. 3. So some weeks after they first saw the lassies of the Eternal City, i the soldiers still are gurgling in their beards about the babies. 4. In the long run, the girls they left back home needn't worry too much because the soldiers couldn't long linger here and besides, women of Rome don't speak English. Now to take up the subject in detail, de-tail, women of Rome are clean and attractive. They're experts at cosmetics, cos-metics, possessors of dresses, blouses, skirts, sweaters, silk stockings, stock-ings, high heels and other American-styled American-styled feminine garb. Tired of Unwashed. Perhaps the main point is cleanliness. clean-liness. Despite the dirty life he personally per-sonally has to live, the Doughboy still likes to see his womenfolk scrubbed behind the ears. Further-,more, Further-,more, he's been getting sick and tired of all the unwashed citizens of the various lands he's been liberating. liberat-ing. So when he came into Rome, after weeks and months in combat lines where he saw practically no women I at all, the shock of seeing the cleanly sort of femininity he had almost forgotten for-gotten was great. It was enhanced by the actions of these dazzling damsels who acclaimed ac-claimed him their deliverer, show-lered show-lered his beard with kisses and ' smothered him with maidenly hugs. He recovered in time to remember I that gag about when in Rome, and also the army's attitude about not 'offending liberated peoples, so he I reciprocated with you might say I enthusiasm. ; The extent to which that enthusi-lasm enthusi-lasm has since been maintained is demonstrated by the following direct ! quotations from the various Allied ! military newspapers: What They Say! Stars and Stripes, American army paper "Wow, the women! They no iparlata, but they sure can capish." I Translated from Doughboys' Italian j this means "they don't speak our i language but brother they sure do i understand." Union Jack, British army paper ; "I say, chap, have you Uhh-uh, have you noted the women?" Maple Leaf, Canadian army pa-jper pa-jper "But the women, Ah, Ah, the i women!" this is repeated some 10 j times in one story. I However, the following random j quotes collected during the survey , indicate that the women back home ; needn't get too worried: ' A Doughboy, north of Rome ' "They didn't let me stay in town ' long enough to get serious." Another soldier, trying to locate : a WAC he used to know "Me, I ' want somebody I can talk to, too." ; An American nurse "Why last ' night 10 different soldiers tried to take me to supper. It's just like the ! days before Rome." Then, with a i delicate if somewhat disdainful I sniff, she said, "I knew they'd come i back to us American girls." |