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

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

- Wilfred Burchett

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

- Wilfred Burchett

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

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency…

- Wilfred Burchett

In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-peopl…

- Wilfred Burchett

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 Pac…

- Wilfred Burchett

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…

- Wilfred Burchett

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 …

- Wilfred Burchett