quarta-feira, setembro 27, 2006

The portuguese connection

CBS:

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who was convicted and later pardoned of being World War II propagandist "Tokyo Rose," died Tuesday of natural causes(...).
Tokyo Rose was the name given by soldiers to a female radio broadcaster responsible for anti-American transmissions intended to demoralize soldiers fighting in the Pacific theater. D'Aquino was the only U.S. citizen identified among the potential suspects.
In 1949, she became the seventh person to be convicted of treason in American history and served six years in prison. But doubts about her possible role as Tokyo Rose later surfaced and she was pardoned by President Gerald Ford in 1977.(...)

On April 19, 1945, D'Aquino married a Portuguese citizen of Japanese-Portuguese ancestry.

O marido desta cidadã americana, apanhada no Japão pelo ínicio da guerra enquanto visitava familares, chamava-se Filipe D'Aquino.