Wilfred Burchett Quotes

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• The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
• As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
• Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.
• In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were…
• Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
• Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.
• Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat…
• When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives…
• Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
• In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes…
• My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
• France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.
• Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
• And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day…
• My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.
• Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?
• 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…
• 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…

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