"Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so……" — Wilfred Burchett
"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 tell whether they were men or women, old or young."
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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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As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
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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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