Hanoi Hannah Quotes
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
North, Don. "The Search for Hanoi Hannah." Vietnam Magazine, Cowles History Group, Feb. 1998, pp. 26-32.
This is the earliest known explicit writing about physiological warefare and its effect on morale of the enemy.
This has been true in just about every conflict. In WWII however, there were a highly disproportionate ration of atrocities with those of the axis forces dwarfing those of the U. S. and its allies. Further, after the war, those allied atrocities that did take place were published. In addition, one basic difference is in the policies of the fighting forces and their governments as opposed to individual actions by soldiers. In WWII, the allied atrocities were of the latter type, but the axis atrocities involved both.
The British, despite Clinton’s correct perception of its importance, could not capture the “hearts and minds” of the American colonists. The importance of the quotation lies in the fact that it appears to be the first time the phrase was used in a political context. Click http://politicalquotes.org/search/node/Hearts%20and%20Minds to see other, later, political quotations that use the phrase. See especially {628753} which became one of the most famous quotations to come out of the Vietnam War.
Jacobo Arbenz, 1915-1971, was the President of Guatemala who the Central Intelligence Agency ousted by organizing a coup and providing a CIA airplane to terrify and intimidate Arbenz’s loyal soldiers. Guatemala had never been bombed before and the low flying planes had the desired effect. This quotation is important because it shows that the United States engaged in some terrorism and some officials actually used the term “terror” in describing one of our activities.
Trịnh Thị Ngọ, also known as Thu Hương and Hanoi Hannah, was a Vietnamese radio personality best known for her work during the Vietnam War, when she made English-language broadcasts for North Vietnam directed at United States troops.
