“Tokio Rose” Seeks Re-entry Into United States
WASHINGTON, Rec. 8 p.m. Nov. 7. Mrs Iva d’Aquina, of Los Angeles, who broadcast over the Japanese radio as “ Tokio Rose ” during the war, has applied for permission to return to the United States to live. State Department officials said to-day that she had requested a passport and they would have to grant it if she would establish that she was a bona fide American citizen. The Justice Department said that it was investigating the case, but had no plans to block her re-entry. Mrs d’Aquina left the United States for Japan on July 5, 1941 without a passport “ to care for an aunt.” The commander of the American Legion, Mr O’Neill, learning of the request, demanded that Mrs d’Aquina should be tried for treason either in the United States or in Japan. He added: “It is unthinkable that she should now be given haven by the Government whose extinction she sought throughout the war.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26614, 10 November 1947, Page 5
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