Journalist honoured
NZPA-Reuter Bangkok
Vietnam has decorated an Australian journalist, Wilfred Burchett, for his contribution to its independence struggle, the Vietnam news agency (V.N.A.) reported yesterday. V.N.A., monitored in Bangkok, said that Burchett was conferred the First Class Resistance Order at the ceremony in Paris this week, his seventy-second birthday.
The Vietnamese Ambassador, Mr Mai Van 80, who presided over the ceremony, praised Burchett as a “staunch fighter against fascism, colonialism and im-
perialism.” Burchett thanked Vietnam for the honour and expressed his conviction in the “final victory of the just cause of the Vietnamese people.” Vietnamese Embassy officials in Bangkok said that the resistance order was conferred on those who took part in the first and second Indo-China wars, respectively against the French and Americans. Burchett, a controversial figure in Australia after he reported from behind Communist . lines during the Korean war, was denied a passport by Canberra until recent years.
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Press, 16 July 1983, Page 11
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