David Frum

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Burchett reported from the Burma front in the Second World War. He was wounded in action. In the 1930s, he assisted German Jews to find refuge in Australia. 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 11, 2022

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Burchett was a journalist born in Australia in 1911. He had an amazingly successful and courageous career in the 1930s and 1940s: the first Western journalist to report from Hiroshima eg. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 11, 2022

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Along the way, though, Burchett's politics curdled into outright communist advocacy. He settled in Beijing after Mao's victory in 1949. When the Korean War erupted in 1950, Burchett put his large reputation to the service of North Korean/Chinese propaganda 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 11, 2022