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Wilfred Burchett 1911-1983 WILFRED BURCHETT 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 o Malcolm Salmon OBITUARY ■ a a ilfred Burchett grew up in Throughout his life as a journalist, it It was not just the I/I# Gippsland, Victoria. He was was common for Burchett to be up and Australian left which was WW born in 1911. The date is at his typewriter as early as three or saddened by the recent significant. It meant, for example, that four o'clock in the morning. He Burchett was 19 in 1930, that in thefirst attributed this, quite simply, to his death of Wilfred Burchett. years of his manhood, he experienced habit of getting up in time to milk’the During a lifetime of all the rigors of the Great Depression. cows when he worked as a live-in farm hand on a Gippsland dairy property committed and courageous The experience marked him tor life during the depression. — but not in the sense of embitterment, struggle, Burchett won the I had reason to be grateful for respect of socialists or anything of the kind. On the Burchett's early-morning ways when contrary, it seems to have throughout the world, and we were together in Paris in 1968. I'd strengthened him. given him a list of questions for an earned the hatred of Writing in his autobiography At the interview for Australian Left Review, conservatives in similar Barricades of his gruelling and he still hadn't given me his replies proportions. ALR here pays experiences behind the lines with the when we wound up at a party together National Liberation Front forces in tribute to the man who took the evening before he was due to take South Viet Nam in the early 1960s, off from Paris on an overseas trip. We an unshakeable stand with Burchett revels in telling how strong were both determinedly knocking back the world's oppressed and his legs were proving, and goes on to large quantities of Ricard, a fearsomely those struggling for "thank his lucky stars" for his strong yellow potion flavoured with experiences trudging around Australia aniseed, like Ouzo. Parting at one freedom and change — a looking for work 30 years before. o'clock, we were both quite drunk. But true internationalist. Another important characteristic of I still remembered the interview, which the man dates from those early years. I mentioned to him. "You'll have it in ALR Su m m er 83 43 the morning," he said. I knew his flight Hiroshima after the dropping of the left at noon, and mentally wrote the atomic bomb in August 1945. He thus whole thing off. became the first person in history to But there he was at the office next write on the mysterious radiation morning, his replies neatly typed. sickness that afflicted survivors of the "You're bloody lucky to get this," he bombing. said, tossing the typescript on my Let one of his colleagues of that time, desk. "After last night I overslept, and Jim Vine, of the Brisbane Courier-Maii, didn't wake up till five o'clock .... " tell the story. I certainly couldn't tell it I have another, rather idle, as well. Harry Gordon printed Vine's recollection of Wilfred which is closely report in his remarkable 1976 book on associated with booze. In Peking in Australian journalism, An Eye-Witness 1959 for the 10th anniversary of the History of Australia. G o rd o n revolution, Gavin Greenlees, Wilfred introduced it as follows: and I were drinking in my hotel room. Once in a while, a reporter becomes a After days spent in an excess of figure of news himself. Such reporters banqueting, Wilfred lay down on my included Ernest Morrison, William bed for a rest. He was soon fast asleep, Donald, Banjo Paterson; and much firmly clutching his near-full whisky later, for various reasons, Douglas glass. Gavin and I watched enthralled Wilkie and Alan Ramsey. as the liquor lapped the side of the glass, and we started laying bets as to There is justification, occasionally, for how long it would be before he spilled one journalist to take a published look some. He slept for just a few minutes at another — as Paterson once did at short of two hours, woke, sat up, and Morrison. Here Jim Vine, the Courier carefully placed the glass — with its Mail war correspondent, wrote about contents intact — on the bedside table. Wilfred Burchett. Greenlees and I were amazed. We'd Burchett had a flair for making news always known Burchett as a steadfast even in 1945 when he became the first character, but this was something else newspaperman to enter Hiroshima, ven after decades in journalism, and later "liberated" five prison camps. Burchett's hands still looked like Years later, reporting the Korean war E those of a working man, large from the communist side, he made and strong, moulded by the millionsnews of again. And again, in his long and movements they had made during his finally successful battle to win back his years of manual labour of various kinds Australian passport. during the depression years. Jim Vine's report was published in Of course, the depression left marks Australian newspapers on 11 of a moral and political kind as well. He September 1945. developed a spirit of identification with the underdog, and a healthy Jim Vine's report said: scepticism about a social system A pocket handkerchief-sized capable of producing economic Australian, Wilfred Burchett, left all cataclysm such as Australia was other correspondents standing in enduring at the time. These covering the occupation of Japan. characteristics never left him either. Armed with a typewriter, seven packets One final point about his formative of K. rations, a Colt revolver, and years: as well as milking cows early in incredible hope, he made a one-man the morning, he studied until late at penetration of Japan, was the first night. His brother Winston, who ran a correspondent into atomic bomb- lending library at the time, had given blasted Hiroshima, and "liberated" five him books. These he proceeded to prison camps. devour, in particular devoting himself to the study of foreign languages. Burchett, a Sydney Daily Telegraph Indeed, it was his grasp of German, correspondent, was told by his office acquired from the study of Winston's to g?t to Hiroshima somehow, but books, that got him his first break in quickly. London in the mid-1930s, and set him The quickest and only way was by on the first great adventure of his train, a 21-hour journey, but he got career, helping Jewish families to there, after standing all the way, six escape from Hitler's Germany. hours before a special batch of The rest of his story is better Known: correspondents landed in a Super- World War II in Rangoon, Delhi, China, Fortress. reporting with the US Pacific fleet on M a c A r t h u r 's i s I a n d - h o p p i n g For those six hours he was the only campaign, and then the event that was white man in Hiroshima, which had the highlight of his career until that had a quarter of its population wiped time, perhaps of his whole career: out in a single bomb raid. The Japs did becoming the first non-Japanese into not exactly strew his path with flowers, A u s t r a l i a n L e f t R e v ie w 86 and the situation at times was tense. Paris and Washington in the '60s and Before leaving Tokio, Burchett had '70s. "There is little doubt that arranged with the Japanese news Through it all he remained W ilfred B u rc h e tt.... w ill, in agency, Domei, to receive his copy, unflappable, maintaining the calm and which was to be transmitted on the the dignity of the superb diplomatist time, receive his due and which he had become. Partisan he was, Japanese telegraph, but the plans be universally accepted as came unstuck when MacArthur placed yes. But he was absolutely tenacious in the capital out of bounds. his pursuit of the facts, "the true facts" one of the genuinely great as he likes to call them, and intolerant With the roads blocked, Henry Keys, of Australians of our times." of any sloppiness in colleagues less the Daily Express, London, also an Australian who was teamed with committed to the cause of accurate Burchett, tried three times in a day to reporting than he. get to Tokio from Yokohama by train, There is little doubt that Wilfred but was thrown off each time by Burchett, the man whose memory we provosts. honor here today, will in time receive his due, and be universally accepted as Burchett and Keys solved the problem one of the genuinely great Australians by hiring an English-speaking of our times. Japanese to act as runner between Already, in the days since his death, Tokio and Yokohama, but the delay many people who have it in themselves cost Burchett his scoop. to rise above the political pornography As it was, he broke even with the of the Cold War are acknowledging Super-Fortress group, who had flown Burchett's achievements in terms their stories back. hardly heard from them before. After Hiroshima, Burchett embarked Peter Robinson, one of the keenest on his one-man liberation tour of minds in Australian metropolitan prison camps, visiting two on the West newspaper journalism, writes that, Honshu coast and three on the Inland together with Richard Hughes, Sea, before official rescue parties Burchett was "among the most reached them.
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