Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
Urgency
Intellectual
Responsibility
Related Quotes:
" Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? "
Wilfred Burchett
Anything
Scale
Justify
" Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party. "
Wilfred Burchett
Political
Political Party
First
" 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
Existence
Looks
Look
" 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
Great
Ear
Progressive
" 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
Young
Heat
Dead
" The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. "
Wilfred Burchett
Chief
Reach
Police
" Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. "
Wilfred Burchett
Racial
Feel
Identity
" Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me. "
Wilfred Burchett
Hiroshima
Profound
Me
" 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
Others
Ashes
Great
" 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
You
Building
Empty
" As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. "
Wilfred Burchett
Demands
Modesty
Model
" 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
Like
Ground
Island
" It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved. "
Wilfred Burchett
Living
Surrender
Whatever
" My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later. "
Wilfred Burchett
Weapon
Us
Used