Word: aquino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After twelve weeks, 1,500,000 words of testimony and 78¼ hours of deliberation, a federal jury in San Francisco last week found thin, poker-faced Iva Toguri ("Tokyo Rose") d'Aquino, 33, guilty of treason. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, she had traitorously taunted Pacific theater G.I.s with a radio broadcast: "Orphans of the Pacific, you really are orphans now. How will you get home, now that all your ships are sunk?" She was the sixth U.S. citizen convicted of treason since the end of World War II.* The minimum sentence Iva could draw...
...including $23,000 to fly 19 witnesses from Japan. Throughout the prosecution's opening statement last week, Tokyo Rose -slight, neat and poker-faced-sat quietly, looking more like a nursemaid than a treasonous enemy of the U.S. With her in court was her husband, Felipe d'Aquino, a Portuguese whom she married in Tokyo in April...
...lawyer contends that she acquired Portuguese citizenship when she married d'Aquino and that U.S. treason laws are not applicable to her. He also contends that the "poor kid" was only a disc jockey, and "all she did was make simple introductions to the music." The Government, the prosecutor declared, would not seek the death penalty...
Their stories were almost identical. Maine-born Mildred Elizabeth Gillars, 47, went to Europe in 1929 to study music. When war came she stayed on in Berlin, broadcasting a mixture of sirupy music and defeatist propaganda to U.S. troops. Los Angeles-born Iva Toguri d'Aquino, 32, went to Japan in 1941 "to see a sick aunt," was caught there by Pearl Harbor. Along with half a dozen English-speaking Japanese girls, she became the corporate voice which Pacific troops nicknamed Tokyo Rose. Just before war's end, she married a Portuguese newsman...
...Brazilian Congress seemed to agree with Rio's press. "We gave our support ... to the Government's attitude toward Russia," cried Senator Ivo de Aquino, "but that does not mean we condone acts of violence against any organization, particularly against the press, which by our laws is guaranteed full liberty." Following the outlawing of the Communist Party, Senator de Aquino had sponsored the Government's controversial bill to toss Communist jobholders out of elective office. Now that bill faced a tough battle...