“Starting with some of the professionals, and then extending down among large numbers of amateurs, girls go down there and wander around in the station and find themselves a soldier and go out and sit in the park. And the park is a very large one with trees and bushes and everything else. And it’s gotten to be a kind of a bad situation.” Taft did not elaborate on what he meant by “professional” and “amateur,” but he did return often to the topic of prostitution, talking about “camp followers” who traveled to construction sites and military encampments, spreading “prostitution and promiscuity”
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