Homer Bigart Quotes
This is not a place where the West can achieve victory.
The military were furious with him and tried to discredit him. But he had won the Pulitzer Price for Journalism twice and his view was read and considered by many. He tuned out to have been right and an uneasy cessation of hostilities and a divided Korea with 40,000 American troops at the border existed 60 years later in the longest military stalemate of the 20th century.
Homer Bigart, 1907-1991, War Correspondent, Statement in his story filed in the midst of the Korean War
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The Russians, who had invaded Afghanistan successfully, then proceeded to lose Afghanistan.
Describing the Munich Pact with Germany:
There was a significant opposition in England who opposed the war against the rebellious colonies. Fox was one of the most outspoken who thought that England would not win.
Homer William Bigart was an American reporter who worked for the New York Herald Tribune from 1929 to 1955 (later known as the International Herald Tribune) and for The New York Times from 1955 to his retirement in 1972. He was considered a "reporter's reporter" and an "enduring role model." He won two Pulitzer Prizes as a war correspondent, as well as most of the other major journalism awards.
