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| Tokyo Rose - Dead at 90 |
| 2006-09-27 |
| Iva Toguri DÂ’Aquino, the Japanese-American convicted of treason in 1949 for broadcasting propaganda from Japan to United States servicemen during World War II as the seductive but sinister Tokyo Rose, died Tuesday in Chicago. She was 90. Her death, at a Chicago hospital, was confirmed by a nephew, William Toguri, who said only that Mrs. DÂ’Aquino had died of natural causes, The Associated Press reported. Tokyo Rose was a mythical figure. The persona, its origin murky, had been bestowed by American servicemen collectively on a dozen or so women who broadcast for Radio Tokyo, telling soldiers, sailors and marines in the Pacific that their cause was lost and that their sweethearts back home were betraying them. The broadcasts did nothing to dim American morale. The servicemen enjoyed the recordings of American popular music, and the United States Navy bestowed a satirical citation on Tokyo Rose at warÂ’s end for her entertainment value. |
| Posted by:elbud |
| #12 Shouldn't this be Fifth Column? I saw Run Silent, Run Deep a few years ago, and recall that she played up the quagmire angle some. It's déjà vu all over again. Except this time, Rosie and Haw Haw are in our own MSM. |
| Posted by: Korora 2006-09-27 19:37 |
| #11 What a pile of crap. Toguri was Tokyo Rose, Traitor. Full Stop. If this bizarro world leftoid re-writing of history continues pretty soon history books will tell students about how the Allies lost WWII. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2006-09-27 19:27 |
| #10 I think that was Gen. Gaip. And it wasn't just Hanoi Jane but also Walter Cronkite declaring how the tet offensive was such a huge disaster for the Americans . (The way I heard it we suffered losses but virtually wiped out the Viet Cong as a force.) Not to excuse Jane - She, John, and Cronkite have a *lot* of blood on their hands.... not that they care who died for their 'cause'... The current MSM and left (Murtha, Durbin, Kennedy, Kerry, Gore, etc...) are of the same cloth - who cares who dies in Afghanistan or Iraq (or Dafur or Thailand...) as long as they get into power.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-09-27 18:35 |
| #9 Banzai! |
| Posted by: borgboy 2006-09-27 17:51 |
| #8 What is scurrilous is that they don't mention the pardon till the penultimate paragraph. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-09-27 17:06 |
| #7 A North-Vietnamese general said, that after Tet they had been close to throw the towel but the visit of Hanoi Fonda was a major fact in making the North-Vietnamese to think America's will to fight was crumbling. Millions of dead Cambodians and Vietnamse were the result of Miss Fonda action. Also let's rememeber how Jane Fonda was handled a message by American prisonners (telling they were being tortured), she didn't content on not transmiiting it, she gave it to the North-Vietnamese. If Tokyo Rose went to jail, Jane Fonda should go to the gallows. |
| Posted by: JFM 2006-09-27 16:15 |
| #6 ...Esteemed Moderators, I think I posted the same story just a few minutes after this one - please delete mine. Now - the historical twist here is that although Mrs D'Aquino was certainly no angel in this matter (despite her arguments to the contrary), there's some evidence that she may have been the scapegoat for several US Army officers, captured in the Philippines, who did a lot of the writing and advising on the propaganda broadcasts. That's one of those things we'll never know for sure, however. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2006-09-27 16:08 |
| #5 She spent over 6 years in prison. Jane Fonda wasn't even prosecuted, let alone convicted. Times have changed, and not necessarily for the better. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-09-27 15:53 |
| #4 Now-a-days traitors only have to apply at the New York or LA Times (or just about any MSM or Acidemic outfit) -- and the left will make them heros. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-09-27 15:50 |
| #3 Too bad. She would have made a great guest on Jane Fonda's new show. |
| Posted by: anon 2006-09-27 15:41 |
| #2 Interesting bit of History. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-09-27 15:39 |
| #1 Innocent? Not likely. Pardon because of American benevolence, I can believe. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-09-27 15:32 |