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Wilfred Burchett Quotes

Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? Picture Quote #1

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later Picture Quote #1

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh’s demands were a model of modesty Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? (Wilfred Burchett Quotes) My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later (Wilfred Burchett Quotes) As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh’s demands were a model of modesty (Wilfred Burchett Quotes) 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 Quotes) Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party (Wilfred Burchett Quotes) 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 Quotes) The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city (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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me (Wilfred Burchett Quotes) 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 Quotes) Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity (Wilfred Burchett Quotes) 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 Quotes)