"As in all his subsequent dealings with France,……" — Wilfred Burchett
"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."
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Wilfred Burchett
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18 Quotes by Wilfred Burchett
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The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
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Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.
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In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying,…
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Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and…
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Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party,…
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Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima…
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When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see…
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Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
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In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four…
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My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came…
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France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles…
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Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
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