"European Maiden versus American Girl"

"A quiet revolution is taking place in America. (...) It is an upheaval brought about by the contact of US soldiers with European women. (...) What happened to American men in Europe?

The modesty and unpretentiousness of the average European woman, the thankfulness and devotion with which they repay the little that they receive but above all the happiness they bring as partners in love were the strong impressions that Americans brought home with them. It has been, above all, this `spiritual revelation,' as Sergeant Thomas D. Crayton of Cincinnati wrote in a letter to the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, that has nurtured this slowly but surely emerging men's revolution. Whether justified or not, the American male believes himself to be `oppressed' by American women, and he has found, in his image of the European woman, the banner of his rebellion.

Eight out of ten returning American veterans, their fists clenched in anger, so to speak, eagerly await the moment in which they can show their women how a `real woman' should behave and what sort of role they as men wish to play from now on."

"Frau von heute", Austrian women's magazine, 1947/18