Talked Out
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{The United States Office of War Information has picked up a Tokyo broadcast paying a tribute to a Japanese shortwave propagandist -@vho talked himself to death denouncing Mr. Roosevelt. Tokyo Radio said that this microphone martyr harangued Mr. Roosevelt nightly and _ overstrained himself. His condition ~ steadily ‘ot worse and he finally succumbed The radio added that he "died a happy death."--Cable news item.] ) HAT is the-moral of the Story About the Japanese Fanatic Who talked himself to Death and Glory, Having denounced, in Terms emphatic, The Foes of Nippon near and far, And Roosevelt in particular? s it that Nemesis descends On Those who vilify the Right? That Death inevitably ends The long vociferated Spite Of Broadcasters who do not care How ‘terribly they foul the Air? ERHAPS a Man cannot expect To charge the Waves with Fear and Hate Indefinitely, and projec To distant FF ssi a Weight Of Malice, and himself contrive With all that Death to stay alive! O moral of that Sort, I fear Ts to be drawn from these Events. But oh, if.Half the Talk I hear Had such a signal Consequence, And Death its natural PenaltyHow very quiet the World would bel
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 195, 19 March 1943, Page 2
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202Talked Out New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 195, 19 March 1943, Page 2
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