Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

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Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?

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As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

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Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

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Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

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The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

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My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

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Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

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France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

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My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

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