Weekends in Frankfurt

U.S. Army European Headquarters Command at Frankfurt has a curious regulation. Over the weekend officers may bring German female guests inside their barbed-wire residential compound, on condition that the Fraeulein leave by 8:30 Monday morning. (After that, presumably, it constitutes fraternization.)

Last week, in a letter to the Stars and Stripes, a British girl asked some embarrassing questions: "Why should German girls be allowed to live in the compound with American officers? I know of several . . . men I consider to be rotten to the core. Why bother to have [a] compound when the whole thing is such a farce?"

Colonel L. Curtis Tiernan, European Theater chaplain, backed up her complaint. The letter, he charged, only brought into the open the "prevalence of looseness and immorality, and the general breakdown of Army discipline in Europe."

Nothing daunted, 120 officers (as high as lieutenant colonels) and War Department civilian employes signed in guests last Saturday night, dutifully signed them out Monday morning--before 8:30.

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