Wilfred Burchett Quotes

Wilfred Burchett
Australian Journalist
Born: Sep 16, 1911
Died: Sep 27, 1983
City Chi First Great Had Hiroshima
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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
Surrender Whatever Living Immediately Ensure Muster Could Had Come Terms POWs Were Camp Conditions Improved Authority Officially Being Bluff Japanese Living Conditions Necessary
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
Monster Out City Had Over Over It Like Look Looks Does Passed Hiroshima Existence Squashed Bombed
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 Feeling Building See Gives Devastation Perhaps Look Empty Around Arrive Hiroshima Square Square Miles Man-Made Stomach Miles Hardly
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. Wilfred Burchett
Me Police First Correspondent City Allied Reach Welcomed Hiroshima Chief Eagerly
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. Wilfred Burchett
Chi France Demands Were His Model Subsequent Modesty
Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? Wilfred Burchett
Scale Civilians Could Anything Justify Extermination
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
Responsibility Journalist Response Emotional Greater Hiroshima Question Intellectual Than Social Urgency Social Responsibility Ever
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
Women Old Men Young Hundreds Possible Tell Badly Dead Terrific Were Heat Burned Whether Even Bomb

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