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Top 15 Wilfred Burchett Quotes (2025 Update)

Wilfred Burchett Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Wilfred Burchett 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.”

2. “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

Wilfred Burchett 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.”

3. “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

Wilfred Burchett Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Wilfred Burchett Quote: “Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.”

5. “Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.”

— Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Burchett 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.”

6. “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

Wilfred Burchett 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.”

7. “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

Wilfred Burchett Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Wilfred Burchett 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.”

9. “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

Wilfred Burchett Quote: “Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.”

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

— Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Burchett Quote: “The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.”

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

— Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Burchett Quote: “My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon – although that anger came later.”

12. “My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon – although that anger came later.”

— Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Burchett Quote: “Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.”

13. “Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.”

— Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Burchett Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Wilfred Burchett Quote: “As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh’s demands were a model of modesty.”

15. “As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh’s demands were a model of modesty.”

— Wilfred Burchett

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