Wilfred Burchett
Wilfred Burchett
Wilfred Graham Burchettwas an Australian journalist known for his reporting of conflicts in Asia and his Communist sympathies. He was the first foreign correspondent to enter Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped, and he attracted controversy for his activities during the Korean and Vietnam Wars...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 September 1911
CountryAustralia
strong vietnamese nations
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.
circles ears demand
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.
ashes heat theory
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.
profound hiroshima effects
Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.