22 Quotes by Wilfred Burchett

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.

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

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.

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

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

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

But the real anger was generated when the US military tried to cover up the effects of atomic radiation on civilians - and tried to shut me up.

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

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.