Quotes by Wilfred Burchett - Page 1

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Effects
Hiroshima
Profound
Effect
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Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Civilians
Extermination
Justify
Scale
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As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Demand
France
Modesty
Chi
Model
Subsequent
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Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Feels
Identity
Inferiors
Made
National Identity
Vietnamese
Racial
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Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Firsts
Party
Political
Socialist
Socialist Party
Vietnamese
French
Joined
Member
Political Party
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The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Cities
Firsts
Hiroshima
Police
Allied
Chief
Correspondent
Eagerly
Reach
Welcomed
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My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Anger
Firsts
Weapons
Although
Weapon
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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.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Cities
Existence
Hiroshima
Hiroshima And Nagasaki
Looks
Over It
Squash
Bombed
City
Monster
Passed
Squashed
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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.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Firsts
Party
Splits
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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.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Circles
Deaf
Demand
Ears
France
Publicity
Attracting
French
Ear
Succeeded
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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.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Emotional
Hiroshima
Intellectual
Response
Responsibility
Social Responsibility
Urgency
Responsibility Social Responsibility
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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.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Burned
Heat
Terrific
Young
Badly
Bomb
Dead
Possible
Old
Hundreds
Tell
Whether
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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 Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Present Day
Strong
Vietnamese
Almost
Chi
Nation
Imprint
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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 you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Men
Devastation
Empty
Giving
Hiroshima
Miles
Squares
Stomach
Arrive
Man-Made
Hardly
Square
Square Miles
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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 was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Great
Ashes
Burned
Centre
Explosions
Heat
Hiroshima
Theory
Atomic
Were
Except
Explosion
Instantly
Nearer
Others
Thousands
Trace
Vanished
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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 a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
War
Atomic Bomb
Damage
Desolation
Eden
Four
Frightening
Greater
Islands
Pacific
Terrible
Testing
Years
Atomic
Show
Bomb
Photographs
Far
Island
Seem
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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 terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Authority
Conditions
Living Conditions
Muster
Surrender
Bluff
Camp
Ensure
Immediately
Japanese
Improved
Officially
Pows
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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 uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Cities
Dying
People
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