Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. Wilfred Burchett Read Quote
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 Read Quote
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh’s demands were a model of modesty. Wilfred Burchett Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party. Wilfred Burchett Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. Wilfred Burchett Read Quote
