This is the story of "Tokyo Rose", a Japanese-American from LA who broadcast propaganda for the Japanese during WW2. Was she a traitor or a victim?
VIDEO HERE (10:49 minutes)
This is the story of "Tokyo Rose", a Japanese-American from LA who broadcast propaganda for the Japanese during WW2. Was she a traitor or a victim?
VIDEO HERE (10:49 minutes)
Interesting was she a traitor, yeah I think she had little choice so maybe not
ReplyDeleteNow do "Lord Haw Haw."
ReplyDeleteDon't forget Axis Sally.
DeleteShe was a traitor, period!
ReplyDeleteConsidering the atmosphere at the time, I would say she was lucky she wasn't shot.
ReplyDeleteAs we all may be forced to do in the very near future, she made the conscious choice between loyalty to her country or her life. She would have been hailed as a hero if she chose the right path.
ReplyDeleteShe did what she thought she needed to do to survive
ReplyDeleteSurvive on your knees?
DeleteI've read a lot about Iva Toguri: It's my view that she was shafted at every possible turn by the US Government. Born a US citizen, our government denied her a passport that would have allowed her to return home from Japan at the start of war. Her broadcasts were scripted for her, but she used tonal inflection and colloquial expression to ensure GIs knew she was talking tongue-in-cheek. After the war, authorities, knowing the full circumstances, ignored exculpatory evidence, and using witnesses who themselves were under threat of prosecution, chose to make an example of her, pulling out the stops to prosecute her. Miss Toguri was a loyal American citizen who was in the wrong place at a bad time.
ReplyDeleteNo way would the government and it's minions ever fabricate "evidence" and use compromised witnesses in order to railroad an innocent American citizen. /s
DeleteHow about both...
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