| 词汇 | tokyo rose |
| 词源 | Tokyo Rose. axis sally, lord hawhaw, and Tokyo Rose were the best known Axis radio propagandists of World War II. Of the triumvirate only Tokyo Rose worked for the Japanese and she was actually a number of women, her name bestowed upon her by American G.I.’s in the Pacific. Iva Toguri d’Aquino and Ruth Hayakawa, both Americans of Japanese descent, were mainly responsible for the radio programs beamed from To- kyo. Their sweet, seductive voices and the sentimental music they played were designed to promote homesickness, but more often than not were good for a laugh. Mrs. d’Aquino was sen- tenced to 10 years in prison for treason in 1949 and was paroled in 1956. Mildred E. (Axis Sally) Gillars was convicted of trea- son by a federal jury the same year and received a 10- to-30- year sentence but won a parole in 1961. d’Aquino was pardoned by President Gerald Ford in 1977. |
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