Wilfred Burchett Quotes

• 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

  Men, Squares, Giving

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• Hiroshima no parece una ciudad bombardeada. Parece como si una monstruosa apisonadora hubiera pasado por encima y la hubiera aplastado hasta hacerla desaparecer.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Cities, Squash

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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

  Cities, People, Dying

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• En este primer campo de pruebas de la bomba atómica he visto la desolación más terrible y aterradora en cuatro años de guerra. Hace que una isla del Pacífico bombardeada parezca un Edén. El daño es mucho mayor de lo que las fotografías pueden mostrar.

  Wilfred Burchett

  War, Islands, Years

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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

  Strong, Vietnamese, Present Day

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• Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Party, Political, Firsts

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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

  Anger, Weapons, Firsts

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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

  Responsibility, Emotional, Intellectual

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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

  Ashes, Heat, Explosions

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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

  Party, Splits, Firsts

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• Hay que hacer sentir a los vietnamitas que son inferiores raciales sin derecho a la identidad nacional.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Identity, Made, Feels

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• Francia hizo oídos sordos a las demandas, pero Ho había logrado atraer una gran publicidad en los círculos progresistas franceses sobre la situación en Indochina.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Circles, Ears, Demand

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• Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Profound, Hiroshima, Effects

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• As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Demand, France, Modesty

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• The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Cities, Police, Firsts

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