Wilfred Burchett

Journalist

1911-09-16

Quotes by Wilfred Burchett

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

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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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• 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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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