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...WILFRED BURCHETT does not look like a radical journalist. In fact, he looks more like a conservative businessman. But when he opens an interview by pointing to a nearby poster of Ho Chi Minh and says, "Ah, my good friend," it becomes easier to recognize in him the man who has been covering revolutionary movements sympathetically since the late...
...Australian-born Burchett embarked on his career early in 1939 when he responded angrily to an article in an Australian paper that praised the Nazis. In a long letter he described what he had seen in a visit to Nazi-governed Germany. Since then he has covered the globe, concentrating on leftwing movements and struggles for national liberation. Most of his work has dealt with Asia, particularly Indochina, but he has also written about struggles in Africa and Portugal. By remaining a freelancer, he has escaped the pitfalls that most journalists run into: he contributes regularly to The Guardian...
Human factors may also overwhelm the President, especially in light of a report by Wilfred Burchett that recent U.S. bombing raids over North Vietnam have convinced Hanoi not to release any more prisoners before the U.S. agrees to a withdrawal date...
...British subject (a cousin of the novelist Graham Greene) who has lived in the United States for the past two decades. Since he made his first trip to China in 1956, he has had a rare entre into the world of Asian Communism. He and Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett seem to have cornered the market for providing the "other side" of the story to the West. It makes for interesting education...
...Could Be." If the optimism had any visible attachment to fact, it was by a frail thread of innuendo spun by Hanoi's Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh in an interview with Newsman Wilfred Burchett, an Australian-born Communist, who has long been a mouthpiece for Asian Reds but has been more attuned to the Moscow line than to that of Peking. The key to Trinh's position was his well-hedged sentence: "It is only after the unconditional cessation of U.S. bombing and all other acts of war against the DRV [Democratic Republic of Viet Nam] that...