While the State Department was getting around to the business of kicking a "highly improper" foreigner out of the country (see col. 1), the Department of Justice finally decided to do something about two U.S. traitors abroad. Last week "Axis Sally" and "Tokyo Rose," were started home to face trial for treason.
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...
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