Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young. — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
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
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
