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Firsts Quotes by Wilfred Burchett
- The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
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