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16 quotes by Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Graham Burchett (16 September 1911 – 27 September 1983) was an Australian journalist known for his reporting of conflicts in Asia and his Communist sympathies. He was the first foreign correspondent to enter Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped, and he attracted controversy for his activities during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
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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.

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Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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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My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency... →

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Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

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My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

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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... →

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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... →

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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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