“The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.” FirstsCitiesPoliceChiefsHiroshima Author: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-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.” PeopleWorldFirstsStillsI CanCitiesDyingDestroyedThirtyBombsPlagueAtomic BombHiroshima Author:Wilfred Burchett
“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.” FirstsBornPartyMembersCommunistSplitsFoundingVietnameseCommunist Party Author: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 Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.” YearsFirstsWarShowsSeemsGreaterFourTerriblePhotographScaryIslandsDamageBombsFour YearsFrighteningTestingEdenPacificAtomic BombDesolationAtomic War Author:Wilfred Burchett
“My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.” FirstsUsedWeaponsAnger Author:Wilfred Burchett
“Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.” FirstsPoliticalPartyMembersSocialistPolitical PartiesPumpkinVietnameseSocialist Party Author:Wilfred Burchett
