It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party. — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
