"Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on……" — Wilfred Burchett
"Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?"
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18 Quotes by Wilfred Burchett
Wilfred Burchett has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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,…
- Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and…
- Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party,…
- Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima…
- When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see…
- 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…
- My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came…
- France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles…