Wilfred Burchett

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it…

— Wilfred Burchett

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater…

— Wilfred Burchett

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

— Wilfred Burchett

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of…

— Wilfred Burchett

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

— Wilfred Burchett

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in…

— Wilfred Burchett

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a…

— Wilfred Burchett

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

— Wilfred Burchett

Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not…

— Wilfred Burchett

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

— Wilfred Burchett

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that…

— Wilfred Burchett

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out…

— Wilfred Burchett

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

— Wilfred Burchett

In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and…

— Wilfred Burchett

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure…

— Wilfred Burchett

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

— Wilfred Burchett

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the…

— Wilfred Burchett

Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?

— Wilfred Burchett